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anguilliform motion

anguilliform motion

[aŋ¦gwil·ə‚form ′mō·shən]
(vertebrate zoology)
A type of locomotion in which a fish such as an eel moves its entire body, from head to tail, with considerable amplitude.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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This is high enough to capture the anguilliform motion. We used a 500-ms averaging window for both swimming speed and turning angle to smooth the effect of anguilliform locomotion.
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