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Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology: Complete Work - Best Text

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286Maggenti and Gardnerdialyneury n. [Gr. dialyein, to reconcile; neuron, nerve](MOLL: Gastropoda) Having zygoneural connections on bothleft and right sides.dialysis n.; pl. dialyses [Gr. dia, through; lyein, to loose]Separation <strong>of</strong> dissolved crystalloids and colloids through asuitable membrane.dialyzate, dialysate n. [Gr. dia, through; lyein, to loose] Usedfor both the material that will and will not diffuse through amembrane.diamorph n. [Gr. dia, through; morphe, form] (PORIF) A cellmass <strong>of</strong> spherical form and a continuous pinacodermformed as a result <strong>of</strong> aggregation <strong>of</strong> dissociated cells.diapause n. [Gr. dia, through; pausis, a stopping] A quiescentphase during the development <strong>of</strong> an organism in whichmost physiological processes are suspended; maybe optional,obligatory or internally controlled. see amphodynamous.diaphanous a. [Gr. dia, through; phanos, light] Showing lightthrough its substance; transparent; translucent; clear.diaphragm n. [Gr. diaphragma, partition, wall] 1. Any <strong>of</strong> thehorizontal dividing membranes <strong>of</strong> a body cavity. 2. Astructure controlling admission <strong>of</strong> light through an aperture.3. (ARTHRO: Insecta) a. In Heteroptera, separatingthe general body cavity from the genital chamber. b. InLepidoptera, that which closes the body cavity caudally,comprised <strong>of</strong> dorsally the fultura superior and ventrally thefultura inferior. 4. (BRYO) a. In Stenolaemata, the membranousor skeletal partition which extends transverslyacross the entire zooidal chamber. b. In Gymnolaemataautozooids, the muscular ring <strong>of</strong> the body wall. 5. (CNID:Hydrozoa) A delicate chitinous floor that supports the hydranth.6. (ECHI) A thin-walled, funnel-like septum incompletelyseparating an anterior or peripharyngeal coelomfrom the general body cavity.diapolar cells (MESO) Ciliated somatodermal cells located betweenthe parapolar and uropolar cells; trunk cells.diarhyses n.pl. [Gr. dis, twice; rhysus, delivering] (PORIF:Hexactinellida) Radial canals that run through the skeletal

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