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Definition of Mesenteries
1. mesentery [n] - See also: mesentery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mesenteries
Literary usage of Mesenteries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Next, a pair of mesenteries, marked 11,11 in the diagram, is developed in the
sulcular ... There are now eight mesenteries present, having exactly the same ..."
2. The coral Siderastrea radians and its postlarval development by J[ames] E[dwin] Duerden (1904)
"The first twelve mesenteries in Siderastrea have been shown to arise in bilateral
pairs, a member on each side of the median axis, and the order is such ..."
3. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1891)
"The mesenteries are twenty in number (PI. IX, Fig. 3), and are situated at equal
distances from each other, but are, nevertheless, arranged in pairs, ..."
4. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1900)
"XIX. 1. 2 shows the structure of a mesentery and the arrangement of its musculature.
3 and 4 show the order and relations of the mesenteries. ..."
5. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1906)
"It has been shown that there is frequently a stage in their development during
which there are only eight mesenteries. This stage is usually called the ..."
6. The Development of the Chick: An Introduction to Embryology by Frank Rattray Lillie (1908)
"... mesenteries AND SEPTUM TRANSVERSUM THK development of these parts is one of
... the definitive relations of the body-cavities and mesenteries depend. ..."
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