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Definition of Metazoon
1. a metazoan [n -ZOA] - See also: metazoan
Medical Definition of Metazoon
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Metazoon
Literary usage of Metazoon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Studies from the Morphological Laboratory in the University of Cambridge by Francis Maitland Balfour, Adam Sedgwick (1889)
"Is it possible, then, that there has not been any such stage, and that the
so-called colonial Protozoon stage in the metazoon onto- ..."
2. Technology Quarterly by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1891)
"Minot urges that an individual metazoon is comparable to a colony of ... If this
be so, then the death of a metazoon (a colony of cells) has its only ..."
3. A Manual of the Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals by Thomas Henry Huxley (1888)
"... and another set with a specially motor and protective, function. It is quite
possible to conceive of an adult metazoon having the structure of a sponge- ..."
4. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1903)
"... and may be compared with the nuclei of the cells of the body of a metazoon,
and that the micronucleus is a sexual nucleus, and can be. only compared ..."
5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1900)
"The parent metazoon must eventually die ; it cannot be put into the melting-pot;
its parts cannot be completely renovated. The gamete can be put into the ..."
6. Proceedings of the second Pan American scientific congress: Washington, U. S by Glen Levin Swiggett (1917)
"The individual metazoon dies, while the protozoon does not die, but grows to full
size and divides into two or more—facts which led Weismann to his ..."
7. The Problem of Age, Growth, and Death: A Study of Cytomorphosis, Based on by Charles Sedgwick Minot (1908)
"Certainly a simpler and more certain conclusion could hardly be drawn than that
the death of a metazoon is not identical, ie, homologous, with the death of ..."
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