exoskeleton

Definitions

Examples

• What’s happening, Boyes explains, isn’t that the caterpillars are actually ending their growth with more meat in their exoskeleton.

• Fossil exoskeletons of whole beetles lack the joints needed to fully classify them.

• The whole beetles’ fossilized exoskeletons lacked the joints needed for classification, but by piecing together the fragmented beetles, the researchers were able to reconstruct these features.

• I eat cicadas that are alive with fluttering wings, dead cicadas that are stiff and dried-out, partially molted cicadas frozen in their exoskeletons, and I especially enjoy eating moist cicada nymphs fresh out of the ground.

• In addition to littering the ground with exoskeletons, in their frenzied quest for mates, cicadas make a ton of noise.

• Today anyone (with the budget) can buy a ReWalk Robotic Exoskeleton for roughly $85,000.

• The exoskeleton in Brazil was described as “mind-controlled,” but it is important to understand exactly what that means.

• A key concept with an exoskeleton is that it restores control to the user.

• The term exoskeleton refers to the hard outer shell found on insects and certain animals like grasshoppers and crabs.

• Another strategy to restore walking is to use an exoskeleton.

• This exoskeleton differs from the main or axial skeleton of the higher animals, the latter being inside of the body.

• The exoskeleton is composed of plates of carbonate of lime, called ossicles, which cover the surface of the body.

• Exoskeleton: Outside framework or support, differing from a true skeleton which lies inside the body.

• The exoskeleton as in the Heterostraci consists of shields and scales, the shields being divisible into three layers.

• The exoskeleton is formed of bony plates, the dorsal and ventral shields each consisting of several symmetrically arranged pieces.