In the quest for a less painful needle, engineers at Kansai University in Osaka, Japan are creating tiny, jagged-edged needle modeled after a mosquito's proboscis.
Living primates exhibit a dazzling diversity of forms—from the saucer-eyed bush babies of sub-Saharan Africa to Borneo's proboscis monkey (the Pinocchio of primates) to humans, the cosmopolitan bipeds.
The male proboscis monkey has a pendulous, vaguely salacious Jimmy Durante nose.
The proboscis had a set of grasping claws on the end, which were used to grab food and stuff it into Opabinia’s mouth.
A proboscis, especially the long prehensile proboscis of an elephant.
any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals.
having a beak or beaklike snout or proboscis.
When female mosquitoes poke their proboscis through your skin so they can suck some of your blood to be later used to make eggs, they inject you with some of their saliva.
After only one or two trials, many bees learned to stick out their tonguelike proboscis in anticipation of a sugary droplet.
Any of numerous, usually dull-colored night-flying moths of the family Noctuidae, having a well-developed proboscis for sucking nectar and larvae such as the cutworms and armyworms that are destructive to young trees and other crops.
Coronary artery is proboscis and ramus of inferior epigastric artery and obturator artery.
Old World monkeys: guenon; baboon; colobus monkey; langur; macaque; mandrill; mangabey; patas; proboscis monkey.
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