rugosity

The author states that rugosity is "a bony signature of dermal armor".

Male sea snakes scale rugosity is more developed than that of the females snakes.

Rugosity may also be seen where the infected plant leaves display small localized random wrinkles.

Some of the more common symptoms are chlorotic rings, leaf rugosity and green mosaic.

Scale rugosity in males allows for a better tactile resistance during mating than non rugose scales.

The leaves of these plants turn mosaic and their rugosity is often changed, making leaves wrinkled and misshapened.

Infected plants, especially the natural hosts, show symptoms such as chlorotic local lesions, mosaic, mottling, puckering or rugosity.

Coral biology: High rugosity is often an indication of the presence of coral, which creates a complex surface as it grows.

The virus induces a severe mosaic, with rugosity and chlorotic ringspots in the leaves of P. edulis.

Employing the winter tactic of faith in grass, he clutched wildly at a tuft, which amazingly held until he was established on the rugosity above.

A common technique to measure seafloor rugosity is Risk's chain-and-tape method but with the advent of underwater photography less invasive quantitative methods have been developed.

Rugosity calculations are commonly used in materials science to characterize surfaces, amongst others, in marine science to characterize seafloor habitats.

Some characteristics of Abruzzo-Erickson syndrome include deafness, protruding ears, coloboma, a cleft palate or palatal rugosity, and short stature.

The first dermal armor is indicated by cranial rugosity on Trigonias osborni, Late Eocene, 42-32 Mya.

Oceanography: Among oceanographers, rugosity is recognized to influence small-scale hydrodynamics by converting organized laminar or oscillatory flow into energy-dissipating turbulence.

Unlike the edge-resection technique, the resection pattern of the central wedge technique preserves the natural rugosity (wrinkled free-edge) of the labia minora.

Along the interpremaxillary suture, the area where the two premaxillae meet, the surface is smooth, giving the paired rugosity of the premaxillae the resemblance of a moustache in anterior view.

If, on the other hand, an annular (ring-shaped) pattern is visible in the rugosity, it is due to "stress concentration at the edges of horns" and is "the signature for epidermal horns".

This labiaplasty technique reduces the vertical excess tissue, whilst preserving the natural rugosity (corrugated free-edge) of the labia minora, and thus preserves the sensory and erectile characteristics of the labia.

Labial reduction by de-epithelialization cuts and removes the unwanted tissue and preserves the natural rugosity (wrinkled free-edge) of the labia minora, and preserves the capabilities for tumescence and sensation.

Geology: For marine geologists and geomorphologists, rugosity is a useful characteristic in distinguishing different types of seafloors in remote sensing applications (e.g., sonar and laser altimetry, based from ships, planes or satellites).

The symptoms of viruses, no matter what host or strain, mainly cause mosaic and rugosity; therefore, there is no accurate way to determine what virus may be the cause of the disease just by looking at the symptoms.

The intent is to create a contiguous surface by filling surface air voids and bugholes (eliminating bughole-induced outgassing), to level a surface with extreme rugosity, or to prep a surface for topcoating with a high-performance protective coating.

Ecology: As a measure of complexity, rugosity is presumed to be an indicator of the amount of available habitat available for colonization by benthic organisms (those attached to the seafloor), and shelter and foraging area for mobile organisms.

Some examples include measuring small-scale seafloor bottom roughness from microtopographic laser scanning (Du Preez and Tunnicliffe 2012), and deriving multi-scale measures of rugosity, slope and aspect from benthic stereo image reconstructions (Friedman et al. 2012).