Medical Definition of Elytrum
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Elytrum
Literary usage of Elytrum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to Entomology: Or, Elements of the Natural History of by William Kirby, William Spence (1846)
"Professor Lichtenstein, in the Linnaan Transactions, has called the attention of
naturalists to the eye-like area in the right elytrum of the males of this ..."
2. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1893)
"Thus, one of the large wings of the dragon-fly, which is almost like a bird in
the range and power of its flight, becomes the elytrum of the beetle ..."
3. Elements of Natural History: Adapted to the Present State of the Science by John Stark (1828)
"Black, with the sides of the thorax and elytra pale reddish-brown; two black
points upon each elytrum, the four forming a square. 6 lines long. Europe. ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly (1880)
"Raised up over the thorax during flight, the elytrum forms a little swaying mass
above the center of gravity, and the slightest motion of this mass affects ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1860)
"If an elytrum is cut ... This was the result of the contained yellow liquid or
blood, for a nearly entire elytrum ..."
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