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from The Century Dictionary.
- Being toward the back and central.
- noun The undermost plate in the calyx of the Crinoidea, usually obscured in the adult condition of stalked forms, but exposed in the stalkless genus Uintacrinus, and seen also in the larval stages of the recent Antedon: by some authors regarded as the topmost segment of the stalk. Also termed centrodorsal.
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Dorso-humeral region: Diptera; bounded by the anterior end of thorax and transverse suture on two sides and by the dorsopleural suture and dorsocentral region on the two others.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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