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Definition of Metazoan
1. Noun. Any animal of the subkingdom Metazoa; all animals except protozoans and sponges.
Group relationships: Metazoa, Subkingdom Metazoa
Definition of Metazoan
1. n. One of the Metazoa.
Definition of Metazoan
1. Noun. (zoology) Any animal that undergoes development from an embryo stage with three tissue layers, namely the ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm. The term applies to all animals except the sponges. ¹
2. Adjective. Having to do with animals that develop from an embryo with three tissue layers. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Metazoan
1. any of a major division of multicellular animals [n -S] : METAZOAL, METAZOIC [adj]
Medical Definition of Metazoan
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Metazoan
Literary usage of Metazoan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Lewellys Franklin Barker, Milton Howard Fussell, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"D. Diseases due to metazoan Parasites (Internal Parasites} Of the animal parasites
which infect the body (non-microscopic), (1) the tapeworms or cestodes, ..."
2. Organic Dependence and Disease: Their Origin and Significance by John Mason Clarke (1921)
"... there is very rarely any evidence that one crosses another or even touches
its neighbors. THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN PROTOZOAN AND metazoan PARASITISM Fig. ..."
3. The Journal of Economic Biology by Walter Edward Collinge, A. H. Reginald Buller, George Herbert Carpenter, Robert Newstead, Arthur Everett Shipley (1906)
"THE EFFECTS OF metazoan PARASITES ON THEIR HOSTS. Bv AE SHIPLEY, MA, FRS, Fellow
and Tutor of Christ's ..."
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