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Bladder
noun · 78% connection
Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: larval, entozoon, subglobular, oval, vesicle.
Bleb
noun · 78% connection
A large vesicle or bulla, usually containing a serous fluid; a blister; a bubble, as in water, glass, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: larval, entozoon, subglobular, oval, vesicle.
Blister
noun · 78% connection
A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collecti…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: larval, entozoon, subglobular, oval, vesicle.
Botfly
noun · 78% connection
A dipterous insect of the family (Estridae, of many different species, some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: larval, entozoon, subglobular, oval, vesicle.
Bulla
noun · 78% connection
A bleb; a vesicle, or an elevation of the cuticle, containing a transparent watery fluid.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: larval, entozoon, subglobular, oval, vesicle.
Caterpillar
noun · 78% connection
The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous insect; sometimes, but less commonly, the larval state of other insects, as the s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: larval, entozoon, subglobular, oval, vesicle.
Chlorophyll
noun · 78% connection
Literally, leaf green; a green granular matter formed in the cells of the leaves (and other parts exposed to light) of plants, to whic…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: larval, entozoon, subglobular, oval, vesicle.
Chromatophore
noun · 78% connection
A contractile cell or vesicle containing liquid pigment and capable of changing its form or size, thus causing changes of color in the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: larval, entozoon, subglobular, oval, vesicle.
Cilia
n. pl. · 78% connection
Small, generally microscopic, vibrating appendages lining certain organs, as the air passages of the higher animals, and in the lower…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: larval, entozoon, subglobular, oval, vesicle.
Cysticercus
noun · 78% connection
The larval form of a tapeworm, having the head and neck of a tapeworm attached to a saclike body filled with fluid; -- called also bla…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: larval, entozoon, subglobular, oval, vesicle.
Echinococcus
noun · 78% connection
A parasite of man and of many domestic and wild animals, forming compound cysts or tumors (called hydatid cysts) in various organs, bu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: larval, entozoon, subglobular, oval, vesicle.
Embryo
noun · 78% connection
an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: larval, entozoon, subglobular, oval, vesicle.
Endoparasite
noun · 78% connection
Any parasite which lives in the internal organs of an animal, as the tapeworms, Trichina, etc.; -- opposed to ectoparasite. See Entozo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: larval, entozoon, subglobular, oval, vesicle.
Entozoa
pl. · 78% connection
of Entozoon
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: larval, entozoon, subglobular, oval, vesicle.
Gastraea
noun · 78% connection
A primeval larval form; a double-walled sac from which, according to the hypothesis of Haeckel, man and all other animals, that in the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: larval, entozoon, subglobular, oval, vesicle.
Glycogen
noun · 78% connection
A white, amorphous, tasteless substance resembling starch, soluble in water to an opalescent fluid. It is found abundantly in the live…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: larval, entozoon, subglobular, oval, vesicle.
Hyaline
noun · 78% connection
The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, suscepti…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: larval, entozoon, subglobular, oval, vesicle.
Hydatid
noun · 78% connection
A membranous sac or bladder filled with a pellucid fluid, found in various parts of the bodies of animals, but unconnected with the ti…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: larval, entozoon, subglobular, oval, vesicle.
