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Definition of Aboral
1. Adjective. Opposite to or away from the mouth. "The aboral surface of a starfish"
Definition of Aboral
1. a. Situated opposite to, or away from, the mouth.
Definition of Aboral
1. Adjective. (zoology) Situated opposite to, or away from, the mouth. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aboral
1. situated away from the mouth [adj] : ABORALLY [adv]
Medical Definition of Aboral
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Aboral
Literary usage of Aboral
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... metrical around an axis connecting the oral and aboral poles ; this is the
primary ... by the aboral pole and with a row of tentacles around the mouth. ..."
2. A Laboratory Manual in Elementary Biology: An Inductive Study in Animal and by Emanuel Roth Boyer (1894)
"(/) On the central disc of the aboral surface, note a wart-like structure ... B.
STRUCTURES OF THE aboral SURFACE. (a) Note the hard projections (spines) ..."
3. The Dynamics of Living Matter by Jacques Loeb (1906)
"39) from 2 to 6 cm. long, which has a polyp (p, Fig. 39) at the oral, a stolon
or foot w at the aboral end. If a piece ab (Fig. 40) is cut from the stem of ..."
4. The Medical Times and Gazette (1875)
"Each of these ends at its aboral extremity in a free edge, often provided ...
In some cases, as in Ce riant fins, there is a pore in the aboral wall of this ..."
5. The Integrative Action of the Nervous System by Charles Scott Sherrington (1906)
"Shock a difficulty in deciphering the purpose of reflexes. Characters of spinal
shock. Its incidence confined to the aboral side of the transection. ..."
6. Bryn Mawr College Monographs by Bryn Mawr College (1904)
"hastened by cutting a piece in two in the middle; and under these circumstances
the aboral polyp may appear almost as soon as does the oral polyp on the ..."
7. Studies in General Physiology by Jacques Loeb (1905)
"side of the vessel, the oral piece moved toward the room side, but not the aboral
piece. When the oral piece moved from the room side toward the window, ..."
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