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enteron Anat.|ˈɛntərɒn| Pl. entera. [mod.L., a. Gr. ἔντερον an intestine.] The alimentary canal; the intestine or gut.
1842Dunglison Med. Lex. (ed. 3) 267/1 Enteron. 1878F. J. Bell tr. Gegenbaur's Comp. Anat. iii. 165 Separate glands are almost always absent from the mid-gut of the Vermes, but the epithelium is generally found to be different from the epithelia of the other divisions of the enteron. 1880Encycl. Brit. XII. 548/1 By the formation of a mouth to the sac, the enteron acquires the functions of a digestive retort. 1927Haldane & Huxley Anim. Biol. xii. 268 The mouth leads into a cavity called the coelenteron, because it fulfils the functions both of the coelom and of the enteron or gut of higher forms. 1963Borradaile & Potts Invertebrata (ed. 4) v. 155 The enteron or cavity of the colony [of polyps] is continuous and common to all its members. |