Symplectic

[sɪmp'lektɪk]

解释:

(a.) Plaiting or joining together; -- said of a bone next above the quadrate in the mandibular suspensorium of many fishes, which unites together the other bones of the suspensorium.

(n.) The symplectic bone.

约翰娜编辑

解释:

adj. placed in or among as if woven together.—n. a bone in the Teleostean fishes which forms the lower ossification of the suspensorium and which articulates below with the quadrate bone by which it is firmly held.

编辑:维姬