archenteron

American  

[ahr-ken-tuh-ron] / ɑrˈkɛn təˌrɒn /

noun

Embryology.

• archentera
  plural

1. the primitive enteron or digestive cavity of a gastrula.

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archenteron British  

/ ɑːˈkɛntəˌrɒn /

noun

1. the cavity within an embryo at the gastrula stage of development that eventually becomes the digestive cavity

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• archenteric
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• archentera
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of archenteron

1875–80; arch- ² + enteron ( def. )

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Example Sentences

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archenteron

The archenteron develops into the alimentary canal, and a mouth opening is formed by invagination of ectoderm at the pole opposite the blastopore of the gastrula.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015

There is no open invagination of an archenteron in the fowl, as in the frog--, the gastrula, like the blastosphere, stage is also masked.

From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

This stage is called the gastrula stage; ar. is the cavity of the gastrula, the archenteron; b.p. is its opening or blastopore.

From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

But our mid-intestine is still the greatly elongated archenteron of the gastrula.

From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by John Mason Tyler

The archenteron gives off two lateral pounchs and thus becomes trilobed.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various

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