odontography (odontografi)

[ pa from the odontoid proce Head of Phanicopterus anti quorum, one of the Odontoglo a. mingos, Phœnicopterida, considered as a group of greater value than a family: equivalent to the later term A mph i morph a of Huxley. Originally Odontoglo i. Nitzsch, 1829. See also cut under flamingo. pensory ligament of the odontoid proce . - Odontoid proce , the characteristic tooth or peg of the axis or vertebra dentata. It represents, morphologically, the body or centrum of the atlas, detached from its own vertebra and ankylosed with the next one. See cut under axis1, 3.-Odontoid vertebra. Same as axis1, 3 ( a ). II. n. The odontoid proce of the axis or second cervical vertebra. Odontolcæ (ō-don-tol'sē), n. pl. [NL., fem. pl. of * odontolcus: see odontolcous.] Birds with teeth implanted in grooves; a subcla of Aves represented by the genus Hes per ornis and related forms from the Cretaceous of North America. These birds had saddle-shaped or heterocœlous vertebræ, and short pygostyled tail, like recent birds, but keelle sternum and rudimentary wings. odontolcate (ō-don-tol'kāt), a. [As odontol cous + -atel.) Same as odontolcous. odontolcous (ō-don-tol'kus), a. [NL. * odon tolcus, prop. * odontholcus,