(a.) Characterized by flatness of head, especially that produced by artificial means, as a certain tribe of American Indians.
(n.) A Chinook Indian. See Chinook, n., 1.
Example Sentences:
(1) Red muscle of mackerel, Australian salmon, pilchard and scad are better vascularised than red muscle of the flathead having 153, 200, 242, 291 and 309 microns 2 of cross-sectional fibre area per peripheral capillary, respectively.
(2) White muscle of mackerel, pilchard and scad are better vascularised than white muscle of the Australian salmon and flathead having 2040, 3367, 4992, 9893 and 10,469 microns 2 of cross-sectional fibre area per peripheral capillary, respectively.
(3) Flathead red muscle had a C:F ratio of between 1.9 and 2.5; and between 5.3 and 6.6 peripheral capillaries per muscle fibre depending on the method used.
(4) There’s no difference [between] crocodiles and flathead, obviously apart from size and teeth.
(5) The illness occurred in a previously well 68-year-old man who was accidentally spiked in the buttock by the dorsal spine of a flathead caught in Tamboon Inlet, near Mallacoota, Victoria.
(6) Using data collected at the Flathead Reservation, this paper explores the degree to which the investigation of the comorbidity of these three disorders can validly reveal the relevant contours of psychopathological distress in a cross-cultural setting.
(7) Flathead red muscle fibres are well suppled with subsarcolemmal mitochondria.
(8) Flathead red muscle was homogeneous whilst teleost white muscle was only slightly variable.