Larvae and Postlarvae. Planktonic larval life begins as the female lobster raises her abdomen and vigorously fans the pleopods to which the prelarvae are attached. This fanning breaks the cement attachment to the prelarvae and propels them upwards toward the water surface.
bicipital tuberosity. [bÄ«â²sipÂ·ÉdÂ·Él âtÃ¼bÂ·Éâ²rÃ¤sÂ·ÉdÂ·Ä] (anatomy) An eminence on the anterior inner aspect of the neck of the radius; the tendon of the biceps muscle is inserted here.
The biceps brachii muscle is the one that gave all muscles their name: it comes from the Latin musculus, little mouse, because the appearance of the flexed biceps resembles the back of a mouse. The same phenomenon occurred in Greek, in which Î¼á¿¦Ï, mÈ³s, means both mouse and muscle.