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platypus(medicine)
emissarium(medicine)
platypus(encyclopedia)
platypus(dictionary)
platypus(dictionary)
emissarium parietale(medicine)
emissarium occipitale(medicine)
duckbilled platypus(dictionary)
emissarium condyloideum(medicine)

emissarium occipitale (medicine) and platypus (sh)


emissarium occipitale (medicine)


emissarium occipitale -->
occipital emissary vein
<anatomy, vein> An inconstant vessel perforating the squama of the occipital bone to connect the occipital veins with the confluens sinuum.

Synonym: vena emissaria occipitalis, emissarium occipitale.


platypus (sh)




or duckbill

Monotreme amphibious mammal (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) of lakes and streams in eastern Australia and Tasmania.

About 23 in. (60 cm) long, the squat-bodied platypus has a ducklike snout, short legs, webbed feet, and a beaverlike tail. Each day it eats nearly its own weight in crustaceans, fishes, frogs, mollusks, tadpoles, and earthworms; lacking teeth, it crushes its Food with ridges in the bill. The female lays one to three eggs in a nest in a long twisting passage above the waterline. The young are weaned about four months after hatching. The male's heel bears a spur connected to a poison-secreting gland. Large fishes and perhaps snakes prey on platypuses. Formerly trapped for their dense, soft fur, they are now protected by law.