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 is a muscle in the upper arm with two heads, called the short head and the long head, which converge into a single mass. It is one of the three muscles in the anterior compartment of the arm, the others being the brachialis muscle and the coracobrachialis muscle, with which the biceps shares a nerve supply.