Mesocoracoid - D

D

• Deciduous: temporary, falling off
• Demersal: living on or near the sea bed
• Dendritic: resembling a tree or shrub
• Denature: the "unfolding" of a protein resulting in a lessening of its biological properties. In the case of some fish toxins, denaturing with hot water can lessen painful symptoms.
• Dentate: with tooth-like projections
• Denticle, denticulate: a little tooth, having an edge with small projecting teeth, the placoid scales of cartilaginous fishes
• Depressed: flattened from top to bottom
• Dermal: pertaining to the skin
• Dewlap: a fold of loose skin
• Disc: the flattened head and body of various fishes such as stingrays, which also commonly includes the pectoral and ventral fins
• Distal: remote from the point of attachment
• Dorsal: pertaining to the back
• Dorsum: the upper (dorsal) surface of the head or body
• Dorsal fin: the fin on a fish's back
• Dorsal fin origin: the most anterior point of the dorsal fin base