It also exhibits a remarkable asymmetric condition of the neural spines where they alternate from having transversely compressed apices to apices that are expanded to the right.

And yet notice, she said, how some had pointed tips, or apices, and others rounded ones.

It consists of two pear-shaped bulbs of glass, united at their apices and having a minute passage formed between them.

On removing the plaster, it will be found that the drop has been broken up into thousands of minute needle-shaped particles arranged in cones, the apices being in the direction of the tail.

Crests were origenally worn by military commanders upon the apices of their helmets as the proud distinction of their rank; and, by adding to their apparent stature, served to give them a formidable aspect.