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Universalium. 2010.
postesophageal
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postesophageal — Behind the esophagus … Medical dictionary
postesophageal — adj … Useful english dictionary
postesophageal commissure — (ARTHROPODA: Insecta) The commissure that joins the tritocerebral lobes of the brain and passes beneath the stomodeum; tritocerebral commissure … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
postesophageal loop — (SIPUNCULA) An extra loop in the foregut of species of Sipunculus and some Xenosiphon … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
postesophageal ganglion — (Order Decapoda): Cephalothoracic ganglion [Stachowitsch, 1992] … Crustacea glossary
tritocerebral commissure — see postesophageal commissure … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
cephalothoracic ganglion — (Order Decapoda): In crab like (brachyuran) decapod, large concentration of nerve tissue posterior to esophagus. Consists of fused ganglia of thoracic somites (thoracomeres). (Syn. postesophageal ganglion) [Stachowitsch, 1992] … Crustacea glossary
subesophageal ganglion — Anterior ganglion of the ventral nerve cord, located beneath (posterior to) the esophagus and connected dorsally to the tritocerebrum. (Syn. subenteric ganglion) [Brusca and Brusca, 2002]. Nerve plexus below esophagus in head of malacostracans… … Crustacea glossary
