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  • Complete doubling of the uterine tubes may occur in association with supernumerary ovaries.
  • For as for that part which seemeth supernumerary, which is prophecy, it is but divine history, which hath that prerogative over human, as the narration may be before the fact as well as after. The Advancement of Learning
  • The upper lateral incisors may be duplicated and the development of four molars or two supernumerary premolars may also occur.
  • It's a disorder in which supernumerary bones form.
  • The imago can become multiradiate at the time of metamorphosis, or it can be 5-rayed at metamorphosis and add the supernumerary rays during post larval growth stages.
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  • supernumerary ornamentation
  • Larkin and Jones 6.212 mention the removal of a meningocele and a supernumerary limb from an infant of four months. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
  • Doctors call the extra appendages "supernumerary" body parts and these can be found on some famous people in history. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • If I were to follow my poor Joliet through all his transmigrations and metempsychoses, as I have learned them by his hints, allusions and confessions, I should show him by turns working a rope ferry, where the stupid and indolent cattle, whose business it is to draw men, were drawn by him; then letter-carrier; supernumerary and call-boy in a village theatre; road-mender on a vicinal route; then a beadle, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873
  • Which was hardly surprising: every line of sight ran up against gilded statuary or supernumerary columns. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
  • Cases of polymastia or supernumerary breasts, and of polythelia or supernumerary nipples, are constantly recorded by modern medical observers. The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology
  • Consider, for example, the mid-fifteenth century case of Duan Gang, a supernumerary soldier from a guard unit attached to an imperial prince who resided in Luzhou, Shanxi Province.
  • A few words with my boss resulted in him being drafted as a supernumerary which became permanent eventually.
  • Most frequently seen are supernumerary nipples anywhere along the primitive milk line, though true accessory mammary glands are most frequently located in the axilla (polymastia).
  • Old Trumble seems not to have risen above the picturesque cast of supernumerary Anglo-Irish clubmen extras in this admittedly exciting tale. Archive 2009-01-01
  • Which was hardly surprising: every line of sight ran up against gilded statuary or supernumerary columns. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
  • The first was the acceptance of "supernumerary" religious, that is of a larger number than the resources of the convent warranted; hence it was but just that the amount required for their maintenance should be demanded of them. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
  • Whether these supernumerary petals are formed by chorisis or by enation cannot, with certainty, be determined without examining the early stages of development. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • The words of Montoyo had scored deeply, and the presence of our supernumerary laid a kind of incubus, like an omen of ill luck, upon us. Desert Dust
  • eights," owing to their containing nine passengers; that the ninth is called the "cock," and is a mere supernumerary or understudent, in case any member of the crew should be overcome by sickishness during the contest and desire to discontinue. Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
  • Another supernumerary was the joiner, a rating only carried in the seventeenth century on great ships with much fancy work about the poop. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.
  • The existence of the supernumerary was a puzzle, but Olbers solved it for the moment by suggesting that Ceres and Pallas, as he called his captive, might be fragments of a quondam planet, shattered by internal explosion or by the impact of a comet. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences
  • As the number of supernumerary troops in the garrisons grew, many were put to work on the agricultural colonies, becoming servants and construction laborers, or pressed into active military service.
  • It will be noticed that a point with which Ellen Key and the leaders of the new German woman's movement specially concern themselves is the affectional needs of the "supernumerary" woman and the legitimation of her children. The Task of Social Hygiene
  • Supernumerary clavicular muscles are numerous but uncommon.
  • Returning to Cardiff, he became a supernumerary registrar to the medical school before leaving to become a general practitioner in the Swansea Valley.
  • Next day, thanks to his histrionic powers and his ingratiating address, he was promoted to the rank of "supernumerary captain's servant" -- a "post which," I give his words, "I flatter myself, was created for me alone, and furnished me with opportunities unequalled for a task in which one word malapropos would have been my destruction. Traffics and Discoveries
  • But the film also shows that society does not see him as such: it sees only an FOB, a supernumerary worker in a cheap laundromat, a potential Communist agitator.
  • Morgagni describes a supernumerary left nympha, and Petit is accredited with seeing a case which exhibited neither nymphæ, clitoris, nor urinary meatus. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
  • There may also be room for optional characters, like a Horse Doctor to minister to Old Ball, or a supernumerary mummer who will be called Patsie.
  • The new species is highly adapted to hypogean life with very obvious troglobiomorphic features: unpigmented cuticle, an extraordinary lengthening of thorax and appendixes, multiplication of antennomeres and supernumerary placoid sensilla, not just in the apical antennomere but also in the preceding antennomeres. Archive 2007-01-01
  • Many of these men were drawn from among the ranks of principal and supernumerary soldiers serving in guard units of the Northern Metropolitan Area, a pool of men with a modicum of military training and ready access to the weapons of the day.
  • The incidence of polydactyly (supernumerary digits of hands or feet) is the same in both sexes, with simultaneous polydactyly of the hands and feet present in about one third of cases.
  • I see many writers here consider a two thirds supernumerary requirement to raise any taxes as a ‘problem’. The Volokh Conspiracy » California’s Woes and Prop 13
  • After being a supernumerary for twelve years, M. Popinot would no doubt die a puisne judge of the Court of the Seine. The Commission in Lunacy
  • Although twenty per cent. of the labouring population were turned adrift in that locality, not one supernumerary was disemployed. The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines
  • In some varieties of the orange, called by the French "bigarades cornues," the thalamus of the flower, which is usually short, and terminated by a glandular ring-like disc, is prolonged into a little stalk or gynophore, bearing a ring of supernumerary carpels. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • At seventeen he set out, working his way on a cargo ship as a supernumerary - doing the odd jobs.
  • The rare phenomenon is known as a supernumerary phantom limb. Unexplained Mysteries
  • The most common variation of the lungs is the presence of supernumerary fissures.
  • Various cases of supernumerary testicles have been reported during operations or in physical examination (without histological proof, however).
  • The new species is highly adapted to hypogean life with very obvious troglobiomorphic features: unpigmented cuticle, an extraordinary lengthening of thorax and appendixes, multiplication of antennomeres and supernumerary placoid sensilla, not just in the apical antennomere but also in the preceding antennomeres. Archive 2007-01-01
  • extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts
  • Fraser-Moleketi said the word "supernumerary" was no longer used by government. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Larkin and Jones mention the removal of a meningocele and a supernumerary limb from an infant of four months. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

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