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lateral lines

n. (lateral line English)

Usage examples of "lateral lines".

These sound-receptor cells are located in a line running along the mid-region of either side and are referred to as the lateral lines.

When her lateral lines signaled that Huaanton had turned from her, Laaqueel glanced back up and saw Iakhovas squarely meeting the sahuagin king's gaze.

Laaqueel felt the tension in the water, could feel Maar-taaugh's heart beating rapidly through her lateral lines.

Smoke rolled freely from cham- ber to chamber through the body of the CST, a ship built on lateral lines to avoid transfer of equipment up and down ladder wells.

From the changes in pressure along his lateral lines, he knew exactly where the sea elf was.

Laaqueel's lateral lines registered the discordant sensation even amid the other disturbances taking place in the water around her.

The coral tips slammed into the wooden deck, sending out vibrations that Laaqueel picked up through her lateral lines.

The Molt moaned through the breathing holes along his lateral lines.

Ears alternated with the speech membranes along Dresser's lateral lines.

This time it was so close that he could see the dark lateral lines along its gleaming flank, and the colour difference, ethereal green above the line and hard gleaming silver below.

Participate in the impulses flowing to the brain from the eyes, from the swim bladder, from the lateral lines along your sides….

Obviously Ozy was loving every minute of this, and in no time he had a screen set up, and a lantern, and was showing us slides of men and women of all ages and appearance, photographed naked against a grid of which the horizontal and lateral lines made it possible to judge with accuracy where they bulged and where they were wanting.