archenteron
[ahr-ken-tuh-ron]
- the primitive enteron or digestive cavity of a gastrula.
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Origin of archenteron
Also called primitive gut.
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They form the rudiment of the notochord, which, as in Amphioxus, is derived from the dorsal wall of the archenteron.
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It soon becomes shut off from the slit-like posterior part of the archenteron.
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In the tail the notochord is shewn at ch, the muscles at m, and the solid remnant of the ventral wall of the archenteron at dd.
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It has already been stated that the lateral walls of the archenteron in the tail give rise to muscular cells.
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The mesoblast is developed from the walls of hollow outgrowths of the archenteron, the cavities of which become the body cavity.
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archenteron
- the cavity within an embryo at the gastrula stage of development that eventually becomes the digestive cavity
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Word Origin
C19: from Greek arkhē beginning + enteron intestine
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