Word Meanings - PLEUROBRANCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any one of the gills of a crustacean that is attached to the side of the thorax.

Related words: (words related to PLEUROBRANCH)

• THORAX
  The part of the trunk between the neck and the abdomen, containing that part of the body cavity the walls of which are supported by the dorsal vertebræ, the ribs, and the sternum, and which the heart and lungs are situated; the chest. Note: In
• ATTACH
  tach, nail, E. tack a small nail, tack to fasten. Cf. Attack, and see 1. To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like. The shoulder blade is . . . attached only to
• ATTACHABLE
  Capable of being attached; esp., liable to be taken by writ or precept.
• ATTACHE
  One attached to another person or thing, as a part of a suite or staff. Specifically: One attached to an embassy.
• CRUSTACEAN
  Of or pertaining to the Crustacea; crustaceous. -- n.
• ATTACHMENT
  1. The act attaching, or state of being attached; close adherence or affection; fidelity; regard; anas, an attachment to a friend, or to a party. 2. That by which one thing is attached to another; connection; as, to cut the attachments of a muscle.
• PROTHORAX
  The first or anterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illusts. of Butterfly and Coleoptera.
• CEPHALOTHORAX
  The anterior portion of any one of the Arachnida and higher Crustacea, consisting of the united head and thorax.
• HAEMATOTHORAX
  See HEMOTHORAX
• REATTACHMENT
  The act of reattaching; a second attachment.
• PYOPNEUMOTHORAX
  Accumulation of air, or other gas, and of pus, in the pleural cavity.
• PNEUMATOTHORAX
  See PNEUMOTHORAX
• HYDROTHORAX
  An accumulation of serous fluid in the cavity of the chest.
• MESOTHORAX
  The middle segment of the thorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera.
• PNEUMOTHORAX
  A condition in which air or other gas is present in the cavity of the chest; -- called also pneumatothorax.
• ENDOTHORAX
  An internal process of the sternal plates in the thorax of insects.
• ENTOTHORAX
  See ENDOTHORAX
• UNATTACHED
  Not assigned to any company or regiment. (more info) 1. Not attached; not adhering; having no engagement; free.
• METATHORAX
  The last or posterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera.
• REATTACH
  To attach again.
• HEMOTHORAX
  An effusion of blood into the cavity of the pleura.