cephalic flexure

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The sharp, ventrally concave bend in the developing midbrain of the embryo.cranial flexure mesencephalic flexure

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Then the rivets were cut out similarly at the other point of contrary flexure and the joint opened.
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During the Bronze Age the cephalic index rises all over middle and western Europe.
The New Stone Age in Northern Europe|John M. Tyler
In the siphon recorder script dots and dashes are represented by curves of opposite flexure.
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I may here observe, that sometimes in the sexes a difference is also to be found in the direction or flexure of their antenn.
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Beyond the mid-brain is placed the fore-brain, whose growth is rapidly rendering the cranial flexure imperceptible.
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