Meaning of nuchal | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The back of the neck.
2. Ellipsis of nuchal translucency scan.
   abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, ellipsis
3. A neck scale, especially of a lizard.

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Examples

“Dunn gives a key to a part of this group of Eumeces, based upon the number of nuchals, placing the two American species (he does not consider Eumeces altamirani Dugès) in a group having 14-17 pairs of nuchals;[…].”

“Growth patterns of clavicles, cleithra, opercles, medial nuchals, dorsal scutes, and pectoral fin ray sections have been compared in white sturgeon Acipenser transmontanus.”

“Scales are weakly differentiated, with head scales flat and smooth, nuchals small and smooth, dorsal scales small and keeled, and tail scales larger ventrally than laterally, without wings.”

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