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Definition of Peritricha
1. n. pl. A division of ciliated Infusoria having a circle of cilia around the oral disk and sometimes another around the body. It includes the vorticellas. See Vorticella.
Definition of Peritricha
1. peritrich [n] - See also: peritrich
Medical Definition of Peritricha
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Peritricha
Literary usage of Peritricha
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of the Infusoria: Including a Description of All Known Flagellate by William Saville-Kent (1880)
"Among the more aberrant types included in the order peritricha, ... By most
authorities the order of the peritricha has been regarded as typifying the ..."
2. A Manual of Zoology by Richard Hertwig (1912)
"The peritricha have a broad peristome area around the cytostome; the opposite
end has a corresponding pedal disc or is narrowed like a goblet and ends in a ..."
3. A Manual of Zoology by Richard Hertwig (1902)
"In the peritricha there is always a broad peristome area with the cytostome; the
opposite end has a corresponding pedal disc or is narrowed like a goblet ..."
4. A Student's Text-book of Zoology by Adam Sedgwick, Joseph Jackson Lister, Arthur Everett Shipley (1898)
"peritricha. Cilia confined to an adoral spiral and a posterior circlet which is
not always present. The adoral spiral with the ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Ehr. ; ISO (peritricha). At d multiple fission of an individual cell to form ...
peritricha. Two individuals are as a result of fission temporarily ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Stein ; ope of the peritricha ; x 350. я, nucleus ; a, bud. .... The lowest
group (the peritricha) may possibly be connected through some of its members, ..."
7. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1903)
"ORDER peritricha, Stein. In this order the cilia are generally confined to a
single spiral ... The general surface of the body of the peritricha is naked. ..."
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