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The four canines, or fangs, of a domestic cat. (The largest two teeth of the top and bottom rows of teeth.) A fang is a long, pointed tooth. [1] In mammals, a fang is a modified maxillary tooth, used for biting and tearing flesh.
In mammalian oral anatomy, the canine teeth, also called cuspids, dogteeth, eye teeth, vampire teeth, or fangs, are the relatively long, pointed teeth. In the context of the upper jaw, they are also known as fangs. They can appear more flattened, however, causing them to resemble incisors and leading them to be called incisiform. They developed ...
Fang, the main character in the indie video game Goodbye Volcano High; F.A.N.G. (Street Fighter), in the video game series Street FighterFang (cat), the cat sidekick of Mona the Vampire
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the faces of older attractive adolescents were less rounded (bigger ratio between facial area and volume), but the reverse was true for girls of any age; attractive older boys had smaller angles of facial convexity with more acute profiles, while in girls the reverse pattern was found;
The venom is modified saliva, delivered through fangs. [26] [80]: 243 The fangs of 'advanced' venomous snakes like viperids and elapids are hollow, allowing venom to be injected more effectively, and the fangs of rear-fanged snakes such as the boomslang simply have a groove on the posterior edge to channel venom into the wound. Snake venoms are ...
Stokes's sea snake is one of the heaviest and stoutest seasnakes, with the longest fangs of any marine snake. [4] Its fangs are long enough to pierce a wetsuit. [5] Its mid-ventral scales are enlarged to form a distinct keel on its belly, the keel frequently broken up into two wart-like tubercles. [6]
In adults, the largest two fangs of the lower jaw are so long, the fangtooths have evolved a pair of opposing sockets on either side of the brain to accommodate the teeth when the mouth is closed. According to BBC's Blue Planet , episode "The Deep", the fangtooth has the largest teeth of any fish in the ocean, proportionate to body size, and ...