Crossword-Solution: PROSOMA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Prosoma | n. | The anterior of the body of an animal, as of a cephalopod; the thorax of an arthropod. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “PROSOMA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ARACHNIDA, thorax of the | 1 answer |
| BODY, anterior part of | 1 answer |
| head and thorax of an arachnid | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
To cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything
flowing like a liquid, either out of a vessel or into it; as, to pour
water from a pail; to pour wine into a decanter; to pour oil upon the
waters; to pour out sand or dust.
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Sentences with PROSOMA (5)
Instead the terms cephalothorax or prosoma are widely used.} : that portion of an obtect pupa covering head and thorax: the anterior segments of larva that have no obviously separated head.
One of the largest muscular masses is formed by the adductor scutorum, and by the muscles which surround in a double layer (the fasciæ being oblique to each other) the whole of the upper part of the prosoma.
Within the prosoma there is a strong adductor muscle, running straight from side to side, for the purpose, as it appears, of flattening the body.
Two great nerves spring from its under side (A), represented in the woodcut on page 49, by dotted lines, and run straight down amongst the viscera in the prosoma: these nerves are about as large as those forming the collar and those running to the second ganglion; hence, six great nerves meet here, two in front, two behind, and two on the under side.
The two vesiculæ seminales are very large; they lie along the abdominal surface of the thorax, and generally (but not in some species of Scalpellum) enter the prosoma, where their broad ends are often reflexed; here the branched vessels leading from the testes enter.