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Bladder
noun · 78% connection
A bag or sac in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some fluid; as, the urinary bladder; the gall bladder; -- applied especiall…
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
The eyelashes.
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
The first rudiments of an organism, whether animal or plant
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
n. pl. · 78% connection
A group of worms, including the tapeworms, flukes, roundworms, etc., most of which live parasitically in the interior of other animals…
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
adjective · 78% connection
Glassy; resembling glass; consisting of glass; transparent, like crystal.
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.
