Crossword-Solution: PLANULA
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| Planula | n. | In embryonic development, a vesicle filled with fluid, formed from the morula by the divergence of its cells in such a manner as to give rise to a central space, around which the cells arrange themselves as an envelope; an embryonic form intermediate between the morula and gastrula. Sometimes used as synonymous with gastrula. |
| Planula | n. | The very young, free-swimming larva of the coelenterates. It usually has a flattened oval or oblong form, and is entirely covered with cilia. |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Some said that the original embryonic form of the metazoa was not the gastrula, but the "planula"--a double-walled vesicle with closed cavity and without mouth-aperture; the latter was supposed to pierce through gradually.
Section of Magosphaera planula, showing how the pear-shaped cells in the centre of the gelatinous ball are connected by a fibrous process.
The wall of the planula is next pushed in on one side, or invaginated, whereby it is converted into a double-walled sac with an opening, the _blastopore_, which leads into the cavity lined by the inner wall.
Some said that the original embryonic form of the metazoa was not the gastrula, but the “planula”—a double-walled vesicle with closed cavity and without mouth-aperture; the latter was supposed to pierce through gradually.
Ray Lankester, in his paper of 1873, and more fully in 1877,[442] propounded a "Planula" theory, according to which the ancestral form of the Metazoa was a two-layered closed sac formed typically by delamination, less often by invagination.