Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

propatagio o patagio

English translation:

propatagium or patagium

Added to glossary by Taña Dalglish
Aug 12, 2007 20:33
16 yrs ago
Spanish term

propatagio o patagio

Spanish to English Social Sciences Zoology Aves
Really stuck with this one. Have asked a few collaborator friends but dont seem to find the name for it, Henry or anyone else ;) what would you translate this as? Thanks!

42.- ¿Qué es propatagio o patagio?
R: Es la tira de piel que va del húmero al radio en el ala de un ave
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Sep 6, 2007 10:49: Taña Dalglish changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/125216">EirTranslations's</a> old entry - "propatagio o patagio"" to ""propatagium or patagium""

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propatagium or patagium

The word is "propatagium" rather than "proTOpatagium"

Web definitions for propatagium
In bats, thin web of skin that extends from the shoulder to the wrist anterior to the upper arm and forearm.
www.uvm.edu/~jdecher/GoT.html - Definition in context

Definition of propatagium - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Definition of propatagium from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary with audio pronunciations, thesaurus, Word of the Day, and word games.
www.m-w.com/dictionary/propatagium - 23k - Cached - Similar pages

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Contributions of the propatagium to avian flight
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ABSTRACT. Through flight experiments with live birds and computer modeling we define the. aerodynamic contributions of the propatagium in avian flight. ...
doi.wiley.com/10.1002/(SICI)1097-010X(19961001)276:2%3C112::AID-JEZ4%3E3.3.CO%3B2-V - Similar pages

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Mechanics of the avian propatagium: Flexion-extension mechanism of ...
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the propatagium's cambered flight surface. Calculations using muscle and. ligament lengths suggest that ...... 81, would further define the mechanism by ...
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Effects of preservation on wing morphometry of the little brown bat
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(is. chiropatagium, plagiopatagium and propatagium) while Blood & McFarlane (1988) define it as the area. of the chiropatagium and plagiopaiagium only. ...
www.personal.uni-jena.de/~b6biol2/goto.php?w=/Publications/... - Similar pages

Patagium Thin membrane stretched out between humerus (upper arm) and radius & ulna (lower arm) forming the leading edge of the wing.

http://www.carolinaraptorcenter.org/glossary.php#P


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patagium / protopatagium

http://www.birdcare.com/bin/showdict?patagium
Patagium
The skin in which the bones and feathers of a bird's wing are embedded.
http://www.americanbirding.org/pubs/birding/archives/vol36no...
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... We have not observed a freshly plumaged Atlanticbird with a white protopatagium (i.e., the leading edge of theunderwing), a mark that is apparently typical of Pacific atrata(A. Jaramillo, personal communication). Observers using Har-rison’s Seabirds (1985)—which combines arminjoniana andheraldica but depicts only Pacific birds’ plumages—haveexpected to see this mark on Atlantic birds (Patteson 1996).On some occasions off North Carolina, though, we haveobserved darker Trinidade Petrels with paler but still duskybellies...

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