- body wall
- body wall n the external surface of the animal body consisting of ectoderm and mesoderm and enclosing the body cavity
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body wall — 1. The integument, the outer layer of many invertebrates, comprising the epidermis (hypodermis) and the cuticle. 2. (BRYOZOA) The wall enclosing the body cavity of a colony and its parts. 3. (ECHIURA) The dermal, glandular, muscular and… … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
body wall — noun Date: 1862 the external surface of the animal body consisting of ectoderm and mesoderm and enclosing the body cavity … New Collegiate Dictionary
body wall — noun : the external surface of the body in all animals consisting of original ectoderm and mesoderm and enclosing the body cavity … Useful english dictionary
limb–body wall complex — a lethal sequence caused by early amnion rupture in utero, so that the fetus has abdominal wall defects with evisceration, neural tube defects, scoliosis, and limb anomalies. Called also body stalk anomaly … Medical dictionary
intrinsic body wall muscles — (BRYOZOA) Circular and longitudinal muscle layers in the body walls … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
Body cavity — Picture of Human body cavities dorsal body cavity to the left and ventral body cavity to the right. By the broadest definition, a body cavity is any fluid filled space in a multicellular organism. However, the term usually refers to the space… … Wikipedia
body cavity — noun : a cavity within an animal body; specifically : the more of less complete space intervening in all higher animals between the body wall and the digestive tract and in mammals and birds divided by the diaphragm into an anterior thoracic… … Useful english dictionary
body cavity — The principal cavity between the body wall and internal organs of an organism: coelom, pseudocoelom or hemocoelom … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
body stalk anomaly — limb–body wall complex … Medical dictionary
Wall Ball — Wall Ball, also called Ball Wall, Butts Up, Suicide, Patball, Off the Wall, Thumb, Red Butt, Ball to the Wall(Some Difference Edis), One Touch or Wallsies is a type of ball game involving a group which involves the bouncing of a ball against a… … Wikipedia
