Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology: Complete Work - Best Text

330Maggenti and Gardnerwardly from the exterior; internally. see ectad.ental a. [Gr. entos, within] Away from the body wall, towardthe center of the body. see ectal.entelechy n.; pl. -chies [Gr. en, in; telos, end; echein, tohold] 1. An actuality or realization as opposed to potentiality.2. A vital force or agent directing growth and life.enteric a. [Gr. enteron, intestine] Pertaining to the enteron oralimentary canal.enterocoel, enterocoele n. [Gr. enteron, intestine; koilos,hollow] Coelom that arises as an outpocketing of the archenteron.enterocoelic a.enterocoely n. [Gr. enteron, intestine; koilos, hollow] Theprocess of forming the perivisceral cavity.enteroic a. [Gr. enteron, intestine] (ANN) Pertaining to the excretorysystem when it opens into the gut lumen. seeexoic.enteron n. [Gr. enteron, intestine] The digestive cavity ofmulticellular animals.enteronephric a. [Gr. enteron, intestine; nephros, kidney](ANN: Oligochaeta) Having nephridia opening into the gutlumen. see exonephric.enterosegmental organs (ANN: Oligochaeta) In Moniligastrida,paired structures containing a bundle of glandulartubes bound together by a delicate connective tissue investmenton the dorsal face of the post-gizzard gut.enterostome n. [Gr. enteron, intestine; stoma, mouth] (CNID)Aboral opening of the actinopharynx leading to the gastrovascularcavity.enterozoa see entozoaentire a. [L. integer, complete] 1. Without emargination; havinga smooth margin. 2. (ARTHRO: Insecta) Pertaining to awing with an unbroken margin. 3. (MOLL: Gastropoda)When the aperture margin is uninterrupted by a siphonalcanal, sinus or crenulation.entoblast see endodermentobranchiate a. [Gr. entos, within; branchia, gills] Having