palp

Example Sentences

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When a male Mongolian desert beetle finds a potential mate, he begins rubbing a protruding mouthpart called a maxillary palp over her genitals.

From Scientific American

I had 103.7° fever, a blood pressure that was 80 over palp, and oxygen levels that were so low I required oxygen support at a level just below that achieved with mechanical ventilation.

From Salon

“They’ve succeeded finally in achieving a lifetime limited only by the power available to the system,” says particle physicist Burton Richter of Stanford University in Palp Alto, California, who sits on a board of advisers to Tri Alpha.

From Science Magazine

Extracellular recordings from the capitate-peg sensilla on the maxillary palp were performed as described.

From Nature

In many blood-sucking flies, for example, the galea is absent, while the lacinia becomes a strong knife-like piercer and the palp is well developed.

From Project Gutenberg