An air sac, sometimes double or variously lobed, in the visceral cavity of many fishes. It originates in the same way as the lungs of…
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Cleavage cavity
the fluid-filled cavity inside a blastula
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One of the spaces in different parts of the bodies of birds, which are filled with air and connected with the air passages of the lung…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Nature and environment, Animals, Medical anatomy.Alt. of Allantoid
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Nature and environment, Animals, Medical anatomy.A thin membrane surrounding the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Nature and environment, Animals, Medical anatomy.Same as Amnion.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Nature and environment, Animals, Medical anatomy.The primitive enteron or undifferentiated digestive sac of a gastrula or other embryo. See Illust. under Invagination.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Nature and environment, Animals, Medical anatomy.the fluid-filled cavity inside a blastula
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Nature and environment, Animals, Medical anatomy.the fluid-filled cavity inside a blastula
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Nature and environment, Animals, Medical anatomy.The cavity of the blastosphere, or segmentation cavity.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Nature and environment, Animals, Medical anatomy.A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, Shanklin Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Nature and environment, Animals, Medical anatomy.The outer membrane which invests the fetus in the womb; also, the similar membrane investing many ova at certain stages of development.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Nature and environment, Animals, Medical anatomy.The joint or bend of the arm; the outer curve in the middle of the arm when bent.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Nature and environment, Animals, Medical anatomy.The cushionlike projection, bearing a tuft of long hair, on the back side of the leg above the hoof of the horse and similar animals.…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Nature and environment, Animals, Medical anatomy.the joint between the cannon bone and the pastern
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Nature and environment, Animals, Medical anatomy.Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Nature and environment, Animals, Medical anatomy.thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Nature and environment, Animals, Medical anatomy.The second, or true, muscular stomach of birds, in which the food is crushed and ground, after being softened in the glandular stomach…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Nature and environment, Animals, Medical anatomy.A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still. The name is also given indiscriminately to all Rhenish wines.
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The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis. Also, the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fluid-filled, cavity, inside, blastula.A chamber or cavity filled with air, in an animal or plant.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fluid-filled, cavity, inside, blastula.the fluid-filled cavity that surrounds the developing embryo
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fluid-filled, cavity, inside, blastula.Produced by, or indicating, a cavity in the lungs, not filled, and giving a sound like that produced by blowing into an empty decanter…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fluid-filled, cavity, inside, blastula.A cavern or cavity, esp. an anatomical cavity or sinus
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fluid-filled, cavity, inside, blastula.A hollow blastula, supposed to be the primitive form; a c/loblastula.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fluid-filled, cavity, inside, blastula.The germinal vesicle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fluid-filled, cavity, inside, blastula.The germinal membrane in an ovum, from which the embryo is developed.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fluid-filled, cavity, inside, blastula.Same as Blastula.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fluid-filled, cavity, inside, blastula.a cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fluid-filled, cavity, inside, blastula.a cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fluid-filled, cavity, inside, blastula.An artificial reservoir or tank for holding water, beer, or other liquids.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fluid-filled, cavity, inside, blastula.a cavity in the mesoderm of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural cavity and pericardial cavity and peritoneal cavity
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: fluid-filled, cavity, inside, blastula.
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