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

This is the primitive gut-cavity or the gastric cavity of the gastrula, progaster or archenteron.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel

Finally, we note two series of buds of cells, one on either side of the archenteron in Figure 7 ii.

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

They distinguished in the middle layer two quite distinct elements, the mesoblast proper, formed by the evagination of the walls of the archenteron, and the mesenchyme, formed by free cells budded off from the germ-layers.

From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

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

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