Crustacea glossary. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. 2011.
cecum — (Order Cladocera): Digestive cecum [Stachowitsch, 1992]. (Order Notostraca): One of two outpocketings of midgut. Elongate and extensively branched with carapace. Opens into digestive tract posterior to esophagus/midgut border. (Syn. midgut… … Crustacea glossary
Cecum — For the genus of sea snails, see Caecum (genus). Not to be confused with sacrum. Cecum … Wikipedia
midgut cecum — (Order Amphipoda): One of several tubular outpocketings of digestive tract. According to position, one may distinguish: (1) two pairs of posteriorly directed lateral ceca (two dorsal and two ventral) arising at stomach/midgut border and extending … Crustacea glossary
digestive cecum — (Order Cladocera): One of two lateral outpocketings of midgut; located in head posterior to border of esophagus and midgut. An additional unpaired cecum may open into posterior end of digestive tract. (Syn. cecum, hepatic cecum, midgut… … Crustacea glossary
lateral cecum — (Order Mysida): One of up to five pairs of digestive glands opening ventrolaterally into digestive tract at border between pyloric stomach and midgut. (See also dorsal cecum). (Syn. lateral diverticulum, digestive cecum) [Stachowitsch, 1992] … Crustacea glossary
rectal cecum — (Order Leptostraca): In digestive tract, unpaired dorsal cecum originating at end of midgut and extending over hindgut [Stachowitsch, 1992] … Crustacea glossary
foramen cecum — foramen ce·cum sē kəm n a shallow depression in the posterior dorsal midline of the tongue that is the remnant of the more cranial part of the embryonic duct from which the thyroid gland developed … Medical dictionary
stomach — (Order Cumacea): Expanded section of digestive tract between esophagus and midgut. Characterized by various lateral folds, channels, and ridges and may be differentiated in anterior cardiac and posterior pyloric regions. One to four pairs of… … Crustacea glossary
Artery — A vessel that carries blood that is high in oxygen content away from the heart to the farthest reaches of the body. Since blood in arteries is usually full of oxygen, the hemoglobin in the red blood cells is oxygenated. The resultant form of… … Medical dictionary
Equine anatomy — The anatomy of the horse comes with a large number of horse specific terms. External anatomy* back: the area where the saddle goes, begins at the end of the withers, extends to the last thoracic vertebrae. (Colloquially includes the loin or… … Wikipedia
