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Definition of Nephridium
1. n. A segmental tubule; one of the tubules of the primitive urinogenital organs; a segmental organ. See Illust. under Loeven's larva.
Definition of Nephridium
1. Noun. (biology) a tubular excretory organ in some invertebrates ¹
2. Noun. (anatomy) the embryonic excretory organ that develops into the kidney ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nephridium
1. [n -DIA]
Medical Definition of Nephridium
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Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Of the kidneys.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nephridium
Literary usage of Nephridium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell (1921)
"Each nephridium (Fig. 755) is a bent tube consisting of an anterior ... The organ
thus closely corresponds to the type of nephridium with closed inner end ..."
2. Lessons in elementary biology by Thomas Jeffery Parker (1898)
"nephridium (Fig. 68) is an extremely delicate tube consisting of two divisions
bent at right ... A nephridium may therefore be defined as a ciliated tube, ..."
3. Amphioxus and the Ancestry of the Vertebrates by Arthur Willey (1894)
"Hatschek interprets this structure as a nephridium. Its true physiological, and
especially its morphological, significance is, however, very perplexing and ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The cavity of the latter is coelom. the terminal vesicle of the nephridium, and
doubtfully the glandular part of the tube is derived. ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The name " nephridium " was originally given by Sir E. Ray ... whose figures show
a derivation of the entire nephridium from mesoblast, and an absence of ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Each nephridium, after being bent upon itself as shown in fig. 143, C, D, opens
to the exterior by a pore placed at the point marked 'a ¡a fig. ..."
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