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scute

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scute [skyüt]
(invertebrate zoology)
A cornified, epithelial, scalelike structure in lizards and snakes.


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Only minor and common external wounds, such as bruising and scute erosions, were observed, with the exception of one animal that had a major puncture wound to the throat.
For example, for an infection with heat, redness and pain, one can use antibiotic, Cold herbs such as Go[den Seal (Hydrastis canadensis), Scute (Scutellaria baicalensis), of other Cold "heat-clearing" herbs.
The overlapping scutes stretched without a seam from just behind the head to about halfway down the tail, says Wann Langston, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Texas at Austin.
 
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