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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> 593ment.myoneural junction Point <strong>of</strong> junction between a motor nerveand the muscle which it activates.myoneure n. [Gr. mys, muscle; neuron, nerve] A motor neuron.myonicity n. [Gr. mys, muscle] The contracting power <strong>of</strong> muscletissue.myophore n. [Gr. mys, muscle; pherein, to bear] (MOLL: Bivalvia)A spoon- or sickle-shaped structure beneath thebeak on the interior <strong>of</strong> the shell; functioning as a place <strong>of</strong>attachment for certain muscles.myoplasm n. [Gr. mys, muscle; plasma, formed or molded]The contractile portion <strong>of</strong> a muscle cell.myosin n. [Gr. mys, muscle] Muscle protein that combineswith actin to form actomyosin in muscle contraction.myostracum n. [Gr. mys, muscle; ostrakon, shell] (MOLL: Bivalvia)That part <strong>of</strong> the shell wall secreted at the attachment<strong>of</strong> the adductor muscles.myotasis n. [Gr. mys, muscle; tasis, tension] Muscular tonicityor tension.myotome n. [Gr. mys, muscle; tome, to cut] A muscle segment,somite or myomere.myrmecobiosis n. [Gr. myrmex, ant; biosis, life] A symbioticrelationship between ants; consociation.myrmecochory n. [Gr. myrmex, ant; chorein, to spread] Activedispersion <strong>of</strong> seeds by ants.myrmecoclepty n. [Gr. myrmex, ant; kleptes, thief] (ARTHRO:Insecta) A form <strong>of</strong> symbiosis in which the guest ant stealsfood from the host ant.myrmecodomatium n.; pl. -ia [Gr. myrmex, ant; domos,house] A plant tissue cavity inhabited by ants.myrmecole n. [Gr. myrmex, ant; L. colere, to inhabit] An organismthat lives in ants' nests, but does not otherwise interactwith them. see myrmecophilous.myrmecology n. [Gr. myrmex, ant; logos, discourse] The division<strong>of</strong> entomology that studies ants.

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