Definitions for archenteron

archenteron arch·en·ter·on

Spelling: [ahr-ken-tuh-ron]
IPA: /ɑrˈkɛn təˌrɒn/

Archenteron is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 725 anagrams from letters in archenteron (aceehnnorrt).

Definitions for archenteron

noun

  1. the primitive enteron or digestive cavity of a gastrula.

Origin of archenteron

1875-80; arch-2 + enteron

Examples for archenteron

They form the rudiment of the notochord, which, as in Amphioxus, is derived from the dorsal wall of the archenteron.

They form the walls of a new cavity, the enterocœl, which is to be regarded as a nipped-off diverticulum of the archenteron.

The archenteron becomes the gastrovascular system or coelenteron.

In ontogeny the notochord is a derivative of the dorsal wall of the archenteron.

It soon becomes shut off from the slit-like posterior part of the archenteron.

The notochord would almost appear to arise as a third median and dorsal diverticulum of the archenteron (fig. 180 ch).

The mesoblast is developed from the walls of hollow outgrowths of the archenteron, the cavities of which become the body cavity.

The greater part of the mesoblast is developed from the walls of the archenteron.

It has already been stated that the lateral walls of the archenteron in the tail give rise to muscular cells.

In the tail the notochord is shewn at ch, the muscles at m, and the solid remnant of the ventral wall of the archenteron at dd.

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