Definition of Theca
1. Noun. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
2. Noun. Outer sheath of the pupa of certain insects.
Definition of Theca
1. n. A sheath; a case; as, the theca, or cell, of an anther; the theca, or spore case, of a fungus; the theca of the spinal cord.
Definition of Theca
1. Noun. (biology) Any external case or sheath. ¹
2. Noun. (botany) The pollen producing organ usually found in pairs and forming an anther. ¹
3. Noun. (medicine) The twin layers of cells surrounding the basal lamina of an ovarian follicle ¹
4. Noun. (microbiology planktology) The membrane complex enveloping the cells of certain plankton including diatoms and dinoflagellates ¹
5. Noun. (context: coral science) The calcareous wall of a corallite, the exoskeleton of a coral polyp ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Theca
1. a protective anatomical covering [n -CAE] : THECAL, THECATE [adj]
Medical Definition of Theca
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Origin: L, fr. Gr. A case to put anything in. See Tick a cover.
1. A sheath; a case; as, the theca, or cell, of an anther; the theca, or spore case, of a fungus; the theca of the spinal cord.
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Literary usage of Theca
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1. Scottish Cryptogamic Flora, Or Coloured Figures and Descriptions of by Robert Kaye Greville (1825)
"Plants with young fructification, both nat. size.—The following are all magnified.
Fig. 8. theca with the lid. Fig. 4. theca with the half-grown calyptra. ..."
2. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physiological by Julius Sachs (1882)
"The latter appears as a column continuous at the base and apex with the wall of
the theca. But while in the true Mosses a layer of cells parallel to this ..."
3. On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish by Eugene O'Curry (1873)
"Dr. Ferguson on the antiquity and origin of music in Erinn ; musical canon of
the Welsh regulated by Irish harpers about AD 1100; his account of the theca ..."
4. The coral Siderastrea radians and its postlarval development by J[ames] E[dwin] Duerden (1904)
"WALL OR theca. The wall or theca of a simple coral or of a corallite is defined
by Vaughan ... 63, the theca is then represented by a narrow, vertical, ..."
5. Gynæcology for Students & Practitioners by Thomas Watts Eden (1920)
"Compound theca-Lutein Cysts are bilateral, thin-walled, multi- locular ovarian
... In general appearance a compound theca-lutein cyst resembles a compound ..."
6. An Introduction to Botany by John Lindley (1832)
"no doubt of the reproductive functions of the contents of what is named the theca
or capsule, which is a hollow urn-like body, ..."
7. An introduction to botany by John Lindley (1832)
"This part, so carried upwards, is named the calyptra: if it is torn away equally
from its base, so as to hang regularly over the theca, it is said to be ..."
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