Definitions for apodeme

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apodeme ap·o·deme

Spelling: [ap-uh-deem]

IPA: /ˈæp əˌdim/

Apodeme is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 144 anagrams from letters in apodeme (adeemop).

Definitions for apodeme

noun

1. a ridgelike ingrowth of the exoskeleton of an arthropod that supports the internal organs and provides the attachment points for the muscles.

Origin of apodeme

1850-55; New Latin apodema, equivalent to apo- apo- + -dema Greek démas body

Examples for apodeme

The nerve does not enter the bluntly-pointed basal end of the common eye, but on one side of the apodeme.

apodeme: an inwardly directed process to which a muscle is attached.

The apodeme, at its base or point of origin, is unusually broad and flat.

The apodeme, of course, is moulted with the integuments of the mouth.

Endosternite: that part of the apodeme arising from the intersternal membrane.