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

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

The space occupied by the yolk corresponds to the archenteron or primitive digestive cavity; and the opening at the end to the primitive mouth or blastopore.

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

We naturally assume, from what we have learnt, that the next stages will be the formation of a hollow blastosphere, invagination, a gastrula forming mesoblast by hollow outgrowths from the archenteron, and so on.

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

In the direct development Bateson showed that the three divisions of the coelom arise as pouches constricted off from the archenteron or primitive gut, thus resembling the development of the mesoblastic somites of Amphioxus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various

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