Definition of Allantoid

1. Adjective. Shaped like a sausage.

Exact synonyms: Sausage-shaped
Similar to: Rounded

Definition of Allantoid

1. a. Of or pertaining to the allantois.

Definition of Allantoid

1. Adjective. (mycology) Sausage shaped. Often used to describe spores that are long with rounded ends. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Allantoid

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Allantoid

1. A membranous appendage of the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles, in mammals serving to connect the foetus with the parent; the urinary vesicle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Allantoid

allantoate deiminase
allantoate permease
allantochorion
allantoenteric diverticulum
allantogenesis
allantoic
allantoic acid
allantoic bladder
allantoic cyst
allantoic diverticulum
allantoic fluid
allantoic sac
allantoic vesicle
allantoicase
allantoicases
allantoid (current term)
allantoid membrane
allantoidal
allantoidea
allantoides
allantoidoangiopagus
allantoids
allantoin
allantoinase
allantoinases
allantoins
allantoinuria
allantois
allantoises
allanturic acid

Literary usage of Allantoid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London by Microscopical Society of London (1844)
"On the vascular arrangement of the Capillary Vessels of the allantoid and Vitelline Membranes in the Incubated Egg. By J. DALRYMPLE, Esq. (See Plate I. figs ..."

2. A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on Midwifery: Including the Diseases of by Pierre Cazeaux (1878)
"OF THE allantoid VESICLE. By the time the amnion has become a completely closed sac ... allantoid ..."

3. The Science and art of obstetrics by Theophilus Parvin (1895)
"A part of the allantoid protrudes from the embryo, and a constriction separates it from ... The external layer of the allantoid is mesoblastic in its origin ..."

4. Allgemeines Englisch-deutsches und deutsch-englisches Wörterbuch by Felix F. Flügel, Johann Gottfried Flügel (1894)
"... hrand on herring noting the quality; —jeit,/. season for herring-fishing. 1) Anal, allantoid; 2) Med. ..."

5. An Inquiry Into the Changes Induced on Atmospheric Air by the Germination of by Daniel Ellis (1807)
"The tubes were large, and valves, made out of an allantoid, were affixed to the end of the upright tube, and to that attached to the ..."

6. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1898)
"allantoid variety, in which there is a direct fusion, complete or partial, of the disc-like germinal areas of the two foetuses at a very early stage, ..."

7. Human Physiology by Robley Dunglison (1846)
"Between the reticulated body, as Velpeau terms it, and the allantoid of oviparous ... Yet the fluid of the allantoid is very different from the urine, ..."

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