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Temporal shields, One or more plates on side of head in some snakes just 
after the postorbitals. 
Tendon. Strong fibrous tissue serving to fix a muscle to the bones upon which 
it acts. 
Terete. Cylindrical and tapering. 
Terminal. At the end. 
Tesséllated. Marked with little checks or squares, like mosaic work. 
Thoracic. Relating to the chest. 
Thymus glands. Small paired organs behind and below the tympanic mem- 
brane in the pharynx. 
Thyroid glands. Small paired organs lying below the floor of the mouth, in 
in front of the glottis, in the pharynx. 
Tibia. Skin bone, or inner bone between the heel and the knee. 
Transverse process. Vateral process of the neural canal. 
Trenchant. Compressed to a sharp edge. 
Trigeminal nerves. Fifth pair of cranial nerves, supplying the ophthalmic, 
mandibular, maxillary and gustatory nerves. 
Trochlear nerves. Fourth pair of cranial nerves, supplying only the superior 
oblique muscle of the eye. 
Truncate. Abrupt, as if cut off square. 
Tubercle. A small excresence like a pimple. 
Tympanum, Ear-drum, external in some amphibians. 
Type. (Of the genus.) A species on which a genus is based. 
Type. (Of the species.) A particular specimen on which the original specific 
description was based. 
Type locality. ‘The particular place or locality where the type specimen was 
found. 
Typicai.. Of a structure most usual in a given group. 
Ulna. Inner bone of forearm. 
Ulnare. Carpal bone at end of ulna. 
Ultimate. Last or farthest. 
Uncinate. A flattened curved cartilage to each rib posteriorly in lizards. 
Unguiculate. Furnished with claws. 
Unicolor. Of a single color. 
Urinary bladder, A dilatation of the ureter serving as a receptacle for the 
urine. 
Urinary tubules. Convoluted substances forming the kidney. 
Urosteges. Plates on lower surface of tail in serpents. Post-ventral plates. 
Urostyle. Slender bony rod in pelvic-girdle following vertebre. 
Utriculus. An irregular chamber in the dorsal compartment of the organ 
of hearing. 
Vagus nerves. Pneumogastric or tenth pair of cranial nerves, supplying the 
cardiac, gastric, lateral, pulmonary and laryngeal nerves. 
Vasa defferentia. ‘'Tubles connecting the testes with the Wolffian bodies 
through which the reproductive products are discharged. 
Vent. Anus. 
Ventral. Relating to the abdomen. 
