| 单词 | body wall |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbody wall body wall n. (a) a wall forming the main part of something; (b) Zoology the layer of tissue surrounding an animal's body. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > other parts > [noun] > wall body wall1755 the world > life > the body > part of body > [noun] > surface surface1594 body wall1861 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [noun] > body-wall body wall1861 1755 J. Muller Treat. Pract. Part Fortification iii. §vii. 158 A trench is dug all round for the foundation of the body-wall. 1847 Ld. Lindsay Sketches Hist. Christian Art I. 25 The body-wall bulging out and lapping over like an Egyptian temple. 1861 J. R. Greene Man. Animal Kingdom II. 40 Processes of the body-wall, within which are developed true generative organs, the ‘spermaria’ and ‘ovaria’, constitute the reproductive apparatus of the Hydrozoa. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 28 Aug. 13/2 A special series of muscles in the body-wall. 1959 E. F. Linssen Beetles Brit. Isles i. 14 Another characteristic feature of insects is the hard, horny body-wall consisting of plates..composed mostly of chitin. 1986 G. F. Dales & J. M. Kenoyer Excavations at Mohenjo Daro ii. iii. 29 A vessel can have any possible rim form, ranging from simple unmodified extensions of the body wall, to complex modifications built up on the edge of the orifice. 1988 Zool. Jrnl. Linn. Soc. 92 368 The intestines are visible through the near transparent body-wall and this gives the animals a reticulate appearance. 1995 C. Nielsen Animal Evol. xxxv. 276 The body wall consists of a cuticle, a layer of ectodermal cells (often called hypodermis), a basement membrane, and a layer of longitudinal body-wall muscle cells. 2002 P. Herring Biol. Deep Ocean App. 290 Holothuroids..are echinoderms that lack arms and have a leathery body wall in which the skeleton is reduced to microscopic ossicles. < as lemmas |
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