dialyneury
dialyneury noun: a direct nerve connection between ganglia that are located on opposite sides of the body of a mollusk.
Noun
dialyneury
- A direct nerve connection between ganglia that are located on opposite sides of the body of a mollusk.
- Dialyneury exists only in the Streptoneura and consists in the establishment of a direct nerve connection between the constituent ganglia of the visceral centre, morphologically belonging to opposite sides of the body;1900, John W. Taylor, William Denison Roebuck, Monograph of the Land & Freshwater Mollusca of the British Isles, page 222
- Such a direct link betwen a parietal and pleural ganglion is known as a sygoneury, and it clearly confers the same functional advantage as a dialyneury but in a more effective manner.1994, Vera Fretter, Alastair Graham, British Prosobranch Molluscs, page 276
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- What does dialyneury mean?
- Dialyneury means a direct nerve connection between ganglia that are located on opposite sides of the body of a mollusk.
- What part of speech is dialyneury?
- Dialyneury is a noun.
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