Definition of Nephridial

1. a. Of or pertaining to a nephridium.

Definition of Nephridial

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to a nephridium ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nephridial

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Nephridial

1. Of or pertaining to a nephridium. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nephridial

nephralgic
nephralgy
nephratonia
nephrectomies
nephrectomize
nephrectomized
nephrectomizes
nephrectomizing
nephrectomy
nephredema
nephrelcosis
nephric
nephric blastema
nephric duct
nephridia
nephridial (current term)
nephridiopore
nephrin
nephrins
nephrism
nephrisms
nephrite
nephrites
nephritic
nephritic calculus
nephritic factor
nephritic syndrome
nephritical
nephritick

Literary usage of Nephridial

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology by Museum of Comparative Zoology, John E. Cadle, Harvard University (1905)
"Both sets of tubules may enter into close contact with the tine branches of the nephridial system. ..."

2. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1900)
"... the Development of the Body-cavity, the nephridial and Circulatory Systems. Apart from tin- primitive kidneys (pp. 1 'Mi. 178) little has yet l>i en ..."

3. A Text-book of the Principles of Animal Histology by Ulric Dahlgren, William Allison Kepner (1908)
"... EXCRETORY OR nephridial TISSUES THE life of all animals depends upon a double process by which complex tissue substances are built up to be broken down ..."

4. The Cell in Development and Inheritance by Edmund Beecher Wilson (1897)
"Section through a nephridial cell of the leech, Clep sine (drawn by Arnold Graf from one of his own preparations). The centre of the cell is occupied by a ..."

5. Morphology of Invertebrate Types by Alexander Ivanovitch Petrunkevitch (1916)
"Williams calls them the nephridial sinus because of their wide lumen. ... They may be best designated as the nephridial arms of the anterior vena cava. ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In all it opens, into the pair of nephridial sacs by an orifice on the wall of each, not far from, the external orifice (fig. 108, y, y1). ..."

7. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1916)
"Showing curved element in nephridial tissue of ten-day female embryo. FIG. 104. Metaphase of a dividing cell in the nephridial tubule of a ten-day female ..."

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