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adjectivebicrurate (not comparable)
- not comparableHaving two crura (leglike shanks)
Novaceck and Wyss [31 ] analyzed the significance of these different morphologies and pointed out that whereas the lack of a stapedial foramen is necessarily correlated with the stapedial artery not going through the stapes, the stapedial artery does not always pierce the stapes in bicrurate stapes.
2015 July 16, “The Stapes of Gomphodont Cynodonts: Insights into the Middle Ear Structure of Non-Mammaliaform Cynodonts”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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