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Pneumatics (from Gr**** πνεῦμα
pneuma 'wind, breath') is the use of gas or
pressurized air in
mechanical systems.
Pneumatic systems used in
industry are...
- of its
teeth were
located far to the front. Its
skeleton was
highly pneumatised (filled with air
spaces connected to air sacs), but the
limbs were robustly...
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along its back. Most of the
vertebrae and some
other bones were
highly pneumatised by
invading air sacs. The tail
ended in pygostyle-like vertebrae, which...
- that
internally the
nasal bone is
heavily pneumatised, with
large air chambers. Also the
jugal bone is
pneumatised. The
lacrimal is I-shaped. It has an ascending...
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elaphrosaurine was
Limusaurus inextricabilis. At
least some
noasaurids had
pneumatised cervical vertebrae. Some are
considered to have had
cursorial habits...
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Despite the
considerable forces exerted on it, the
humerus is
hollow or
pneumatised inside,
reinforced by bone struts. The long
bones of the
lower arm, the...
- structure, as
exemplified by the lack of rear epipophyses. Most are not
pneumatised by pleurocoels,
depressions in
which diverticula of air sacs penetrate...
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other theropods. The
nostrils are
large but not
uncommonly so.
Having pneumatised rear back
vertebrae is
normal for carcharodontosaurids.
Elevated paired...
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together with
Deinocheirus and Archaeornithomimus,
Gallimimus had the most
pneumatised skeleton among ornithomimosaurs.
Pneumatisation is
thought to be advantageous...
- twenty-seven
denticles on the
front edges. The
vertebrae of the back are
highly pneumatised,
filled with
trabecular bone that
shows many air spaces. On the middle...
