Rorqual whales (Balaenopteridae) represent not only some of the largest animals of all time, but also exhibit a wide range in intraspecific and interspecific body size. Balaenopterids are ...

In 1948, cancer of the buccal cavity and pharynx accounted for 4558 male and 1154 female deaths in the United States, representing 4.7 per cent of all male and 1.2 per cent of all female cancer deaths ...

Two short-term cyclic events, buccal oscillations and ventilatory cycles, occur in the bullfrog's respiration. During ventilation the frog fills the buccal cavity with air, then blows the pulmonary ...

Is the buccal cavity of the frog a respiratory chamber? In a letter to NATURE, March 24, Mr. M. D. Hill accepts this conception of it, and yet the only evidence which can be offered in support of this ...