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Definition of Ctenidium
1. Noun. Comb-like respiratory structure serving as the gill of certain mollusks.
Definition of Ctenidium
1. Noun. (zoology) A respiratory system, in the form of a comb, in some molluscs ¹
2. Noun. (zoology) A row of spines in some insects ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ctenidium
1. a comblike anatomical structure [n -DIA]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ctenidium
Literary usage of Ctenidium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"We thus expose the plough-like foot ф, the two left labial tentacles, and the
two left gill-plates or left ctenidium. In fig. ..."
2. Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy : with Descriptions of by George Rolleston, William Hatchett Jackson (1888)
"Foot large in archaic forms, and mantle-fold projecting over right side. Anus then
placed far back beyond mantle-edge, behind the ctenidium ..."
3. Text-book of Comparative Anatomy by Arnold Lang, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1896)
"If we suppose this pallial complex to have changed its position, shifting gradually
forward along the right mantle furrow, each ctenidium would drag along ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Many Euthyneura show a tendency to, or a complete accomplishment of, the suppression
of the mantle- skirt as well as of- the shell, also of th» ctenidium, ..."
5. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1906)
"Pallial cavity devoid of a ctenidium and transformed into a lung ; pedal ...
ctenidium present, and to the left of it a pulmonary sac, separated from the ..."
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