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Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology: Complete Work - Best Text

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426Maggenti and Gardnergranular hemocyte.hemocytoblast see prohemocytehemocytopoietic organs see hemopoietic organshemoglobin n. [Gr. haima, blood; L. globos, sphere] A redoxygen respiratory protein with iron in the prosthetic groupwith molecular weights varying from 17,000 to 2,750,000,differing in absorption spectrum and oxygen-combiningproperties.hemolymph, haemolymph n. [Gr. haima, blood; L. lympha,water] 1. (ARTHRO) Fluid within the hemocoel. 2. (NEMATA)The pseudocoelomic fluid.hemolysis, haemolysis n. [Gr. haima, blood; lyein, to dissolve]The breakdown or destruction <strong>of</strong> red blood corpuscles.hemolytic a.hemophagous a. [Gr. haima, blood; phagein, to eat] Ingestingblood.hemopoietic a. [Gr. haima, blood; poietes, maker] Pertainingto any blood forming cell or organ.hemopoietic organs (ARTHRO: Insecta) Discrete encapsulatedorgans, reported in Hemiptera, Coleoptera, Diptera, Lepidopteraand Hymenoptera, functioning in the formation <strong>of</strong>blood cells; hemocytopoietic organs; also spelled haemopoietic.hemozoin n. [Gr. haima, blood; zoon, animal] A pigmentfound in a host produced by a malarial parasite from thehemoglobin <strong>of</strong> the host.henidium n. [Gr. dim. henos, one] (BRACHIO) Deltidial platesthat lose the line <strong>of</strong> fusion during growth.Hensen gland (MOLL: Cephalopoda) A gland found in the headnear the eyes that synthesize leucocytes; white body.hepatic a. [L. hepaticus, liver] Pertaining to liver; liver colored.hepatic caecum/cecum pl. caeca/ceca Pouchlike diverticulumgenerally connected with the mesenteron in many invertebrates.see hepatopancreas.hepatic cells see nephrocyteshepatic groove (ARTHRO: Crustacea) In Decapoda, a groove

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