integument
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Similar to a hypodermic needle, a nematode uses its stylet to pierce cells and pull out food -- in this case from the pseudoscorpion's hypodermis, part of the outer covering known as the integument.
From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2024
Epithelial tissues include the epidermis of the integument, the lining of the digestive tract and trachea, and make up the ducts of the liver and glands of advanced animals.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
Several other characteristics are distinctive to mammals, including certain features of the jaw, skeleton, integument, and internal anatomy.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
This disorder arises when defective valves allow blood to accumulate within the veins, causing them to distend, twist, and become visible on the surface of the integument.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
Ecdysis, ek′di-sis, n. the act of casting off an integument, as in serpents.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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