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Their skin is merely a layer of ciliated ectodermic cells.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August

In the marine Streptoneura they are ectodermic projections which ultimately fall off; in the Opisthobranchs they are closed pouches; in Paludina and Bithynia they are canals as in Pulmonata.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various

The hair, teeth, and particles of bone found in these cysts are looked upon as the development of abnormal ectodermic and endodermic cells, rather than as evidence of a separate personality.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin

Spadella P. Langerhans, with a pair of lateral fins on the tail and a thickened ectodermic ridge running back on each side from the head to the anterior end of the fin.

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

The surface is covered with ciliated epithelium, a stratum of ectodermic cells.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August