单词 | corpus allatum |
释义 | corpus allatumn. Entomology. In insects: each of a pair of small endocrine organs behind the brain which secrete juvenile hormone. ΚΠ 1899 Amer. Naturalist 33 901 Heymons describes..two small bodies, the corpora allata, lying immediately above the œsophagus in the head of Bacillus rossii. 1938 A. D. Imms Gen. Textbk. Entomol. (ed. 4) i. 137 Corpora allata are found in all orders of insects. 1977 T. I. Storer et al. Elements Zool. (ed. 4) viii. 108/1 In bugs (Rhodnius), a hormone from the corpus allatum behind the brain inhibits metamorphosis. 2005 G. Arnqvist & L. Rowe Sexual Confl. iv. 100 The stimulatory effect of seminal substances on the female corpus allatum. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1899 |
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