Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The alimentary canal; the intestines.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In zoology and anatomy, the intestine, alimentary canal, or digestive space which is primitively derived from the endoderm, including its annexes and appendages, but excluding any digestive space which is primitively derived from an ingrowth of ectoderm (stomodæum or proctodæum). In its original undifferentiated state the enteron is called
archenteron ; in any subsequent changed state, metenteron, the intestine of ordinary language.
Wiktionary
- n. The gut, the whole intestine (alimentary) canal
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The whole alimentary, or enteric, canal.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the alimentary canal (especially of an embryo or a coelenterate)
Etymologies
- Greek; see en in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“Some species of a group of bacteria called enterobacteriaceae, after the Greek word enteron, which means “intestine,” are capable of making us a little sick or very sick depending on the circumstances.”
“However, when it was pointed out to the directors that the common medical meaning of enteron was “alimentary canal, intestines, guts,” company officials hastily demanded that a new name be found evocative of energy and the future but with no suggestion of upset stomach or bowel movement.”
Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
“Enteric: relating to the digestive canal or enteron.”
“As in the preceding reconstruction no attempt is made to show the gill clefts, and only the dorso-ventral profile of the enteron is shown.”
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator
“It lies, of course, on both sides of the enteron proper, and overlaps, anteriorly, as has been said, the posterior end of the lung.”
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator
“The layers of its wall are much more fully differentiated than in the more anterior regions of the enteron.”
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator
“A reconstruction, plotted from transverse sections, of the enteron of an embryo of about the age of the one shown in figure 6.”
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator
“Figure 7 represents a reconstruction of the enteron of an embryo of 42 mm. crown-rump length.”
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator
“A surface view of an embryo, from the dorsal aspect, at the beginning of the formation of the enteron.”
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator
“In the present paper the development of the enteron is described in detail, but the derivatives of the digestive tract (liver, pancreas, lungs, etc.) are mentioned only incidentally; the development of these latter structures may be described in a later paper.”
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator
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anatomy etcetera
Funny sounding things found in bodies. Might be split up into several lists later...
zona incerta, mucous membrane, secretomotor, tear film, tear sac, duodenum, horripilation, peduncle, pelvic outlet, canal of Schlemm, visceral, chromosomal cross... and 134 more...
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just neat
insolent, redolent, clammy, chunder, berate, vainqueur, neotony, milquetoast, amphigory, semprini, twaddle, plethora and 28 more...
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