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Definition of Archenteron
1. Noun. Central cavity of the gastrula; becomes the intestinal or digestive cavity.
Definition of Archenteron
1. n. The primitive enteron or undifferentiated digestive sac of a gastrula or other embryo. See Illust. under Invagination.
Definition of Archenteron
1. Noun. (anatomy) A primitive alimentary cavity ¹
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Definition of Archenteron
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Medical Definition of Archenteron
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Archenteron
Literary usage of Archenteron
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Development of the Frog's Egg: An Introduction to Experimental Embryology by Thomas Hunt Morgan (1897)
"DIFFERENT ACCOUNTS OF THE ORIGIN OF THE archenteron AND MESODERM Before following
further the fate of these concentric coats or layers of cells, ..."
2. A Laboratory Text-book of Embryology by Charles Sedgwick Minot (1910)
"The archenteron comprises the entire cavity bounded by the entoderm. ... As the
head of the embryo protrudes, the archenteron forms a cephalic prolongation, ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"It is typically a double-walled sac surrounding the archenteron or primitive
digestive cavity, which opens at one pole to the exterior by the blastopore or ..."
4. Bryn Mawr College Monographs by Bryn Mawr College (1906)
"The rolling around of cells at the anterior end of the archenteron makes the
archenteron longer in this direction than the actual space overgrown by the ..."
5. Chimæroid Fishes and Their Development by Bashford Dean (1906)
"We here observe also the reduced size of the segmentation cavity, the thickening
of the cell mass roofing the archenteron, and the thinning out of the mass ..."
6. Journal of Applied Microscopy by Bausch & Lomb Optical Company (1900)
"The vesicle was not considered to correspond to the whole archenteron, but just
to a part, as could be seen with a superficial consideration. ..."
7. A Text-book of Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell (1921)
"While the central nervous system is thus being formed, the endodermal wall of
the archenteron develops dorso-laterally a pair of longitudinal ..."
8. An Introduction to Vertebrate Embryology: Based on the Study of the Frog and by Albert Moore Reese (1904)
"C, beginning of the archenteron, Ar. (gastrulation). SC, segmentation- cavity (camera
lucida ; C slightly altered). the egg (Fig. 5, B) show a small central ..."
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