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Ambulacrum

One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays.

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Ambulacral 74% connected

Of or pertaining to ambulacra; avenuelike; as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms.

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Of or pertaining to ambulacra; avenuelike; as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms.

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Echinoderm 70% connected

One of the Echinodermata.

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Air vessel unknown · 78% connection

A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pu…

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Amphigean adjective · 78% connection

Extending over all the zones, from the tropics to the polar zones inclusive.

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Anastomosis noun · 78% connection

The inosculation of vessels, or intercommunication between two or more vessels or nerves, as the cross communication between arteries…

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Araucaria noun · 78% connection

A genus of tall conifers of the pine family. The species are confined mostly to South America and Australia. The wood cells differ fro…

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Artery noun · 78% connection

One of the vessels or tubes which carry either venous or arterial blood from the heart. They have tricker and more muscular walls than…

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Bear noun · 78% connection

An animal which has some resemblance to a bear in form or habits, but no real affinity; as, the woolly bear; ant bear; water bear; sea…

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Blood pressure noun · 78% connection

the pressure of the circulating blood against the walls of the blood vessels; results from the systole of the left ventricle of the he…

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Bushhammer noun · 78% connection

A hammer with a head formed of a bundle of square bars, with pyramidal points, arranged in rows, or a solid head with a face cut into…

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Capillary noun · 78% connection

A minute, thin-walled vessel; particularly one of the smallest blood vessels connecting arteries and veins, but used also for the smal…

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Centreboard noun · 78% connection

A movable or sliding keel formed of a broad board or slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water-tight case amidships, when…

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Cipolin noun · 78% connection

A whitish marble, from Rome, containiing pale greenish zones. It consists of calcium carbonate, with zones and cloudings of talc.

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Costal groove noun · 78% connection

groove between the ribs where the nerves and blood vessels are

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Diapedesis noun · 78% connection

The passage of the corpuscular elements of the blood from the blood vessels into the surrounding tissues, without rupture of the walls…

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Drag verb · 78% connection

To be drawn along, as a rope or dress, on the ground; to trail; to be moved onward along the ground, or along the bottom of the sea, a…

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Efferent adjective · 78% connection

Conveying outward, or discharging; -- applied to certain blood vessels, lymphatics, nerves, etc.

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Epithelium noun · 78% connection

The superficial layer of cells lining the alimentary canal and all its appendages, all glands and their ducts, blood vessels and lymph…

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Extravasation noun · 78% connection

The act of forcing or letting out of its proper vessels or ducts, as a fluid; effusion; as, an extravasation of blood after a rupture…

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Feeling noun · 78% connection

The sense by which the mind, through certain nerves of the body, perceives external objects, or certain states of the body itself; tha…

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