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Zoology
The scientific study of the animal kingdom, including extinct and possibly mythical beings.
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pharynx
Zoology; Zoological terms
In vertebrates, a tube leading from nose and mouth to the larynx and esophagus; conducts air during breathing and food during breathing and food during swallowing; the throat; it ...
proboscis
Zoology; Zoological terms
An eversible (with retractor muscle), hollow, muscular organ (sometimes dotted with a stylet) used for prey capture, defense, and locomotion that lies in a fluid-filled cavity ( ...
protonephridium
Zoology; Zoological terms
An excretory organ, used in discharging water and waste products, in which the nephridial canal does not open internally through a funnel but is closed and contains beating ...
prototroch
Zoology; Zoological terms
Ciliated ring around the equatorial plane of a free-swimming larvae used for locomotion and for the generation of food bearing currents.
protozoa
Zoology; Zoological terms
Literally the first animal; any one of the single-celled eukaryotic organisms that is primarily animal- like in its method of obtaining food
rhynchocoel
Zoology; Zoological terms
Refers to the cavity in which the proboscis lies. Any such body cavity is lined by mesoderm
setae
Zoology; Zoological terms
Attached to each segments of earthworms, no true legs but pairs of bristle that pushes against the ground and enables movement.
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