Jawless vs Agnathic - What's the difference?
jawless | agnathic | Synonyms |
Jawless.
* 1980 , Thomas Pozorski, “The Early Horizon Site of Huaca de los Reyes: Societal Implications”, American Antiquity , volume 45, page 104:
* 2004 , V. B. Rastogi, Modern Biology , seventh edition, Pitambar, ISBN 81-209-0496-6, page II-61:
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(pathology) Afflicted by or characteristic of agnathia.
* 1902 , Bertram C. A. Windle, “Twelfth Report on Recent Teratological Literature”, Journal of Anatomy and Physiology , volume 36,
* 1913 , John H. Musser, A Practical Treatise on Medical Diagnosis for Students and Physicians , sixth edition, Lea & Febiger,
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Jawless is a synonym of agnathic.
As adjectives the difference between jawless and agnathic
is that jawless is lacking a jaw while agnathic is jawless.agnathic
English
Adjective
(-)- […]the heads are inverted and agnathic (lacking a lower jaw)[…].
- Mouth is without jaws (agnathic ) in lampreys and hagfishes and bounded by jaws (gnathic) in all other vertebrates.
- Mortal combat and decapitation are suggested by the eight skillfully and gracefully engraved heads depicted here with their serrated necks, the prominent arrowheads, and the agnathic or jawless head regalia.
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- […]an imperforate pharynx which existed in an agnathic lamb.
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- In the mouth: various irregularities, such as wide separation of the teeth; abnormal development of the canines; the prognathic or agnathic jaw; high arching of the palate; cleft palate—all are found more frequently among persons otherwise degenerate than in normal individuals.
- Most pregnancies with agnathic fetuses are associated with polyhydramnios, which probably result from fetal inability to swallow because of persistence of the oropharyngeal membrane.