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Definition of Madreporic
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Madreporic
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Madreporic
Literary usage of Madreporic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of the Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals by Thomas Henry Huxley (1888)
"The pores of the madreporic tubercle place the cavity of the m ... The madreporic
canal is invested by the lining mambrane of the peritoneal cavity. ..."
2. Report by British Association for the Advancement of Science (1888)
"The only organ that can have this function in echinodermata Ls the madreporic
canal and plate. This, always regarded hitherto as an apparatus for taking up ..."
3. ... Hawaiian and Other Pacific Echini by Alexander Agassiz, Hubert Lyman Clark (1914)
"The madreporic pores are usually numerous and occupy .most of the surface of the
plate formed by the fusion of the oculars and genitals; for this reason I ..."
4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"—madreporic canals, in echinoderms, tubular prolongations of the circular vessel
of the ambulacral system, having perforated ends, and terminating in a ..."
5. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1877)
"For purposes of convenience the madreporic plate—placed posteriorly—and ...
the ocular plate and ambulacrum on the immediate left of the madreporic, ..."
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