Lexicographical Neighbors of Nictitant
Literary usage of Nictitant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1866)
"226, the upper, e, and lower, b, eyelids are severed at the outer canthus, and
drawn apart to show the third or nictitant eyelid, h, and the extent of the ..."
2. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1866)
"226, the upper, e, and lower, b, eyelids are severed at the outer canthus, and
drawn apart to show the third or nictitant eyelid, h, and the extent of the ..."
3. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1864)
"Eyes without nictitant membrane .................. AI. ... Eyes with nictitant
membrane. Head laterally produced . ..."
4. The Visitor, Or, Monthly Instructor by Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (1839)
"... and black, having a nictitant membrane for their protection against the light
of the sun ; and their expression -adds an uncommon degree of malignant ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly (1877)
"... the pupil remains a little contracted, and the secretion of tears continues,
and also the nictitant membrane remains in a congested state. ..."
6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1849)
"... with their nictitant membrane, enabled these creatures to see in the dark.
We merely mention Mr. Kirby's hypothesis, to show that one at least of the ..."
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