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Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology: Complete Work - Best Text

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802Maggenti and Gardnersimple organic nutrients from surrounding medium.saprozoite n. [Gr. sapros, rotten; zoon, animal] An animalthat lives on dead or decaying organic matter. see saprophyte.sarcobelum n. [Gr. sarx, flesh; belos, sting] (MOLL: Gastropoda)In Pulmonata, a glandular node projecting into theprepuce from the junction <strong>of</strong> the penis sheath and propuce.sarcode n. [Gr. sarx, flesh] Protoplasm.sarcolemma n. [Gr. sarx, flesh; lemma, covering] An outermembrane enclosing the nucleated sarcoplasm in which themuscle fibers are embedded.sarcolysis n. [Gr. sarx, flesh; lyein, to loosen] Phagocytosis <strong>of</strong>muscles.sarcolyte n. [Gr. sarx, flesh; lytos, broken] (ARTHRO: Insecta)In Diptera, spherical bodies filled with muscle fragments inthe blood <strong>of</strong> the pupae during metamorphosis.sarcomere n. [Gr. sarx, flesh; meros, part] Any one <strong>of</strong> a series<strong>of</strong> units occurring at regular intervals along a muscle fiber,each unit encompasses the actin and myosin filaments; inmost invertebrates each sarcomere is set-<strong>of</strong>f by Z discs.sarcomeric a. see I-bands, T-tubule.sarcophagous a. [Gr. sarx, flesh; phagein, to eat] Feeding onflesh.sarcoplasm n. [Gr. sarx, flesh; plasma, formed or molded]The undifferentiated protoplasm <strong>of</strong> a muscle cell; betweenthe my<strong>of</strong>ibrils.sarcoplasmic reticulum Endoplasmic reticulum in striatedmuscle fibers; surrounding the my<strong>of</strong>ibrils.sarcosomes n. [Gr. sarx, flesh; soma, body] Former name formitochondria in muscle cells.sarcostyle n. [Gr. sarx, flesh; stylos, pillar] (CNID: Hydrozoa)The dactylozooid on a column; nematophore.sarcotheca n. [Gr. sarx, flesh; theke, case] (CNID: Hydrozoa)The sheath <strong>of</strong> a sarcostyle; nematotheca.sarothrum see scopasaw n. [A.S. sagu, saw] (ARTHRO: Insecta) a. In Symphyta,

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