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Word Meanings - METAGASTRIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the two posterior gastric lobes of the carapace of crabs.

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  • CARAPACE
    The thick shell or sheild which cover the back of the tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals.
  • POSTERIORLY
    Subsequently in time; also, behind in position.
  • PERTAIN
    stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
  • POSTERIORITY
    The state of being later or subsequent; as, posteriority of time, or of an event; -- opposed to priority.
  • GASTRIC
    Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the stomach; as, the gastric artery. Gastric digestion , the conversion of the albuminous portion of food in the stomach into soluble and diffusible products by the solvent action of gastric juice. -- Gastric
  • POSTERIORS
    The hinder parts, as of an animal's body. Swift.
  • CRABSIDLE
    To move sidewise, as a crab. . Southey.
  • CRABSTICK
    A stick, cane, or cudgel, made of the wood of the carb tree.
  • POSTERIOR
    At or toward the caudal extremity; caudal; -- in human anatomy often used for dorsal. (more info) 1. Later in time; hence, later in the order of proceeding or moving; coming after; -- opposed to prior. Hesiod was posterior to Homer. Broome. 2.
  • MESOGASTRIC
    Of or pertaining to the middle gastric lobe of the carapace of a crab. (more info) Of or pertaining to the middle region of the abdomen, or of the stomach. Of or pertaining to the mesogaster.
  • METAGASTRIC
    Of or pertaining to the two posterior gastric lobes of the carapace of crabs.
  • HEPATOGASTRIC
    See GASTROHEPATIC
  • STOMATOGASTRIC
    Of or pertaining to the mouth and the stomach; as, the stomatogastric ganglion of certain Mollusca.
  • UROGASTRIC
    Behind the stomach; -- said of two lobes of the carapace of certain crustaceans.
  • POLYGASTRICA
    The Infusoria.
  • PERIGASTRIC
    Surrounding the stomach; -- applied to the body cavity of Bryozoa and various other Invertebrata.
  • HYPOGASTRIC
    Of or pertaining to the hypogastrium or the hypogastric region. Hypogastric region. The lower part of the abdomen. An arbitrary division of the abdomen below the umbilical and between the two iliac regions.
  • MONOGASTRIC
    Having but a single stomach.
  • POLYGASTRIC
    Having several bellies; -- applied to muscles which are made up of several bellies separated by short tendons.
  • DIGASTRIC
    Having two bellies; biventral; -- applied to muscles which are fleshy at each end and have a tendon in the middle, and esp. to the muscle which pulls down the lower jaw. Pertaining to the digastric muscle of the lower jaw; as, the digastric nerves.
  • ENTOGASTRIC
    Pertaining to the interior of the stomach; -- applied to a mode of budding from the interior of the gastric cavity, in certain hydroids.
  • A POSTERIORI
    Characterizing that kind of reasoning which derives propositions from the observation of facts, or by generalizations from facts arrives at principles and definitions, or infers causes from effects. This is the reverse of a priori reasoning.

 

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