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Definition of Gastrovascular
1. a. Having the structure, or performing the functions, both of digestive and circulatory organs; as, the gastrovascular cavity of cœlenterates.
Definition of Gastrovascular
1. Adjective. (anatomy) That has both a digestive and a circulatory function ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gastrovascular
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Gastrovascular
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Gastrovascular
Literary usage of Gastrovascular
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1895)
"We have seen that two parts can be distinguished in the fundament of the
gastrovascular system (Fig. 67 C) • . * lower, which arose as an ectodermal ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1901)
"The walls of the gastrovascular cavity are usually said to be lined with ento- derm.
Gardiner points out that digestion does not take place in the ..."
3. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1900)
"The gastrovascular canals, like the infundibulum, are lined with endoderm. ...
The horizontal gastrovascular canals serve to place the infundibulum in ..."
4. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1885)
"The gastrovascular cavity is formed in the midst of the nutritive hypoblast cells,
which then become rapidly absorbed leaving the gastrovascular cavity ..."
5. An Introduction to the Study of the Comparative Anatomy of Animals by Gilbert Charles Bourne (1900)
"In the Hydro- medusae the mouth opens directly into the gastrovascular cavity,
and the latter is not complicated by the presence of partitions, ridges, ..."
6. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"Digestion is mainly extracellular, enzymes being discharged into the gastrovascular
cavities for this purpose. The digested food is transported to various ..."
7. A Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals: Exclusive of Insects by Henry Sherring Pratt (1916)
"The gastrovascular space consists of a complex system of narrow tubes (Fig. ...
The space between these gastrovascular tubes and the outer ectoderm is ..."
8. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"gastrovascular canal, a connection or communication between the enteric cavity
proper and some part ... gastrovascular space, a gastrovascular body-cavity. ..."
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