单词 | propodium |
释义 | propodiumn. Zoology. 1. The anterior lobe of the foot in some molluscs, esp. gastropods. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > mollusc or shell-fish > parts of mollusc ungulaa1382 mantlea1475 trunk1661 diaphragm1665 lid1681 operculum1681 ear1688 beard1697 corslet1753 scar1793 opercle1808 pleura1826 pallium1834 byssus1835 cephalic ganglia1835–6 opercule1836 lingual ribbon1839 tube1839 cloak1842 test1842 collar1847 testa1847 rachis1851 uncinus1851 land-shell1853 mantle cavity1853 mesopodium1853 propodium1853 radula1853 malacology1854 gill comb1861 pallial cavity1862 tongue-tootha1877 mesopode1877 odontophore1877 pallial chamber1877 shell-gland1877 rasp1879 protopodium1880 ctenidium1883 osphradium1883 shell-sac1883 tooth-ribbon1883 megalaesthete1885 rachidian1900 scungille1953 tentacle-sheath- 1853 T. H. Huxley in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 143 30 Attached by a narrow root or pedicle to the ventral surface..is the broad cheese-cutter-shaped foot, or as I propose to call it, propodium. 1870 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. I. xlvii. 259 In the Heteropoda..the foot exhibits a division into three portions—an anterior, the ‘propodium’; a middle, the ‘mesopodium’; and a posterior lobe, or ‘metapodium’. 1958 J. E. Morton Molluscs ii. 35 Its front part, the propodium, is built up into a fleshy head-shield like a sand-plough which reaches back over the front of the shell, leaving a transverse slit behind it for the snout and tentacles. 1988 Evolution 42 325/2 As the water was drained, snails became stationary and withdrew their propodia. 2. A bone of the proximal or upper segment of the limb of a tetrapod (esp. a reptile or amphibian), i.e. the humerus or femur; this segment of the limb. ΚΠ 1916 Science 7 Jan. 35/1 It has been generally assumed that the unusual characters mentioned above have been confined to the propodium (humerus or femur). 1978 Q. Rev. Biol. 53 395/1 The epipodium is the radius and ulna, or tibia and fibula; the propodium is the humerus or femur. 1986 Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias 58 387 ( (title) ) Osteological description of the propodium and epipodium of the anterior and posterior members of Pareiasaurus americanus. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1853 |
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