- nephrostome
- noun Etymology: New Latin nephrostoma, from nephr- + stoma stoma Date: 1888 the ciliated funnel-shaped coelomic opening of a typical nephridium
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
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Nephrostome — is the funnel like component of a metanephridium. It is always oriented towards the coelom. The nephrostome is covered from the inside with cilia, which push the water, metabolic wastes, unnecessary hormones and other substances into the… … Wikipedia
Nephrostome — Neph ro*stome, n. [Gr. nefro s a kidney + sto ma mouth.] (Zo[ o]l. & Anat.) The funnel shaped opening of a nephridium into the body cavity. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
nephrostome — n. [Gr. nephros, kidney; stoma, mouth] The coelomic opening of a nephridium … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
nephrostome — nephrostomous /neuh fros teuh meuhs/, nephrostomial, adj. /nef reuh stohm /, n. 1. Zool. the ciliated opening of a nephridium into the coelom. 2. Embryol. a similar opening from the coelom into a tubule of the embryonic kidney. [1885 90; NEPHRO + … Universalium
nephrostome — neph·ro·stome nef rə .stōm also ne·phros·to·ma ni fräs tə mə n, pl stomes also sto·ma·ta mət ə the ciliated funnel shaped coelomic opening of a typical nephridium * * * neph·ro·stome (nefґro stōm) nephrostoma … Medical dictionary
nephrostome — neph·ro·stome … English syllables
nephrostome — … Useful english dictionary
nephrostoma, nephrostome — One of the ciliated funnel shaped openings by which pronephric and some primitive mesonephric tubules communicate with the celom. [nephro + G. stoma, mouth] … Medical dictionary
Nephridiopore — is part of the nephridia, an excretory organ found in many organisms, such as flatworms or annelids. Nephridia are analogous to nephrons or uriniferous tubules found in the kidney of humans. The nephridia consists of an opening called nephrostome … Wikipedia
animal development — Introduction the processes that lead eventually to the formation of a new animal starting from cells derived from one or more parent individuals. Development thus occurs following the process by which a new generation of organisms is produced by … Universalium
