单词 | enteron |
释义 | enteronn. Chiefly Zoology. The intestines or gut, esp. of an invertebrate or embryo. Also in plural. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > [noun] the sink(s) of the body1615 alimentary canal1730 alimentary tract1798 enteron1839 alimentary1851 foodway1904 1839 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 2) 717/2 Enteron, intestine. 1849 Western Jrnl. Agric. 2 304 Before the fishing season commences, the farmers contract with the fishermen for all the entera of the fishes. a1878 J. W. Warter Old Shropshire Oak (1886) II. 126 And the one and the other settled themselves as impudently and unconcernedly amongst their flocks as..the fierasfer does in the entera of the sea cucumber. 1878 F. J. Bell & E. R. Lankester tr. C. Gegenbaur Elements Compar. 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. 1880 Encycl. Brit. XII. 548/1 By the formation of a mouth to the sac, the enteron acquires the functions of a digestive retort. 1883 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 23 116 As no exertion is required to procure the nourishment, the degeneration of the muscle-fibres has to some extent followed that of the enteron. 1906 Carolina Med. Jrnl. 55 317/2 The changed mechanism of the entera and their malposition interfere with the circulation by strangulation of the vessels. 1927 J. B. S. Haldane & J. S. Huxley Animal 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. 1963 L. A. Borradaile & F. A. Potts Invertebrata (ed. 4) v. 155 The enteron or cavity of the colony [of polyps] is continuous and common to all its members. 2006 Invertebr. Biol. 125 224/2 For anemones, I also recorded rejection for any piece [of food] ejected whole from the enteron within the next 24 h. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1839 |
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