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Definition of Statocysts
1. statocyst [n] - See also: statocyst
Lexicographical Neighbors of Statocysts
Literary usage of Statocysts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Natural History of the American Lobster by Francis Hobart Herrick (1911)
"BALANCING ORGANS OR statocysts. It is commonly observed that while a living fish
swims with its body erect and poised, a dead one floats on its side, ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1901)
"The statocysts of Cephalopoda. By R. HA.KLYX-HARRIS, FR MS, FZS Thanks to the
kindness of the Committee of the British Association for the Advancement of ..."
3. Lectures on Plant Physiology by Ludwig Jost (1907)
"NOLL (1900) imagined that a sensitive apparatus was formed in the ectoplasm,
analogous to the statocysts which occur in crayfish, ..."
4. The Animal Mind: A Text-book of Comparative Psychology by Margaret Floy Washburn (1917)
"Delage in found that Mysis, Palaemon, and other forms displayed serious disturbance
of equilibrium when both eyes and statocysts were destroyed, ..."
5. Morphology of Invertebrate Types by Alexander Ivanovitch Petrunkevitch (1916)
"statocysts. Tima formosa has one hundred twenty-eight simple statocysts along its
... The statocysts are more or less round bodies of very small size. ..."
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