Definition of Phragmocone

1. Noun. The thin conical chambered internal shell (either straight or curved) of a belemnite.

Exact synonyms: Phragmacone
Generic synonyms: Shell

Definition of Phragmocone

1. n. The thin chambered shell attached to the anterior end of a belemnite.

Definition of Phragmocone

1. Noun. The chambered portion of the shell of a cephalopod, divided by septa into camerae. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Phragmocone

1. The thin chambered shell attached to the anterior end of a belemnite. Alternative forms: phragmacone. Origin: Gr, a fence, an inclosure + a cone. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phragmocone

photoxylography
photozincograph
photozincographic
photozincographs
photozincography
phots
photted
photting
photuria
phoxim
phpht
phr
phrag
phragmacone
phragmites
phragmocone (current term)
phragmocones
phragmoplast
phragmoplasts
phragmosiphon
phragmosis
phragmosome
phragmotic
phrantic
phrantick
phrasal
phrasal idiom
phrasal preposition
phrasal prepositions
phrasal typology

Literary usage of Phragmocone

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

1. Aids in Practical Geology by Grenville Arthur James Cole (1902)
"The phragmocone is closely fitted into a hollow, styled the Alveolus,* which ... —Guard of Belemnites, cut open above to show remains of the phragmocone ..."

2. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1901)
"It contains the remains of a long tapering phragmocone, the chambers of which have been ... The rounded, bead-like apical chamber of the phragmocone, ..."

3. Descriptive Catalogue of the Fossil Organic Remains of Invertebrata by Museum, Royal College of Surgeons of England (1856)
"A portion of the guard, including the beginning or apex of the alveolus and phragmocone of the Belemnites Owenii, Pratt. Three of the chambers of the ..."

4. Figures and Descriptions Illustrative of British Organic Remains by Geological Survey of Great Britain (1864)
"Beyond this point, the phragmocone is broken away, but the impressions of three chambers are left on the inner surface of the ..."

5. Palæontology--Invertebrate by Henry Woods (1902)
"Restoration by GC Crick. a, phragmocone; 6, front border of ... The phragmocone (figs. 109 b, 110 a) is a hollow cone which fits intc the alveolus at the ..."

6. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1906)
"An extinct family in which the shell has a well-developed phragmocone and the rostrum ... An extinct family with a short phragmocone provided with a ventral ..."

7. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1900)
"This approximates most nearly to the shell of certain Belemnites which was also an internal shell though, so far as its chambered portion (phragmocone) was ..."

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