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Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology: Complete Work - Best Text

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<strong>Online</strong> <strong>Dictionary</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Invertebrate</strong> <strong>Zoology</strong> 231transmit an impulse.conductor n. [L. conducere, to lead together] A structure specializedfor the transmission <strong>of</strong> excitation.conduplicate a. [L. cum, together; duplicare, to double] Doubledor folded together; folded together lengthwise.condyle n. [Gr. kondylos, knuckle] 1. A knoblike process thatforms the fulcrum for joint movement. 2. (ARTHRO) Thesurfaces between arthropod joints, that provide the fulcraon which the joints move. 3. (BRYO: Gymnolaemata) Insome cheilostomates, one <strong>of</strong> a pair <strong>of</strong> bilateral skeletalprotruberances on which the operculum <strong>of</strong> an autozooid ormandible <strong>of</strong> an avicularium is hinged; in asymmetrical aviculariacan be single. 4. (MOLL: Bivalvia) An enlargedprominent end <strong>of</strong> a shell. condylar, condylic, condyloida.cone n. [L. conus, cone] 1. Any cone-shaped structure. 2. Theconical crystalline body <strong>of</strong> a compound eye, not alwayssolid crystalline and occasionally not conical. see crystalline.3. (ARTHRO: Insecta) The head shape <strong>of</strong> a thrip. 4.(NEMATA: Secernentea) The vulval cone <strong>of</strong> heteroderidcysts.cone cell (ARTHRO: Insecta) One <strong>of</strong> the four cells that producethe crystalline cone.cone-shaped see cyrtoconicconferted a. [L. confertus, pressed together] Densely assembledor packed; crowded.confluent a. [L. confluere, flowing together] Flowing together;merging; running together as confluent spots withoutmarked lines <strong>of</strong> distinction.confluent budding zone (BRYO: Stenolaemata) Coelomicbudding space and surrounding exterior walls connectingbody cavities <strong>of</strong> buds or combinations <strong>of</strong> buds and zooids.confluent multizooidal budding zone (BRYO: Stenolaemata)Confluent budding zone that originates outside <strong>of</strong> the zooidalboundaries opposite the endozone.confluent zooidal budding zone (BRYO: Stenolaemata) Aconfluent budding zone originating within the outer

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