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Any of certain mouth appendages of some insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and hydrozoa; in particular
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Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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- 2012, Georgia E. Lesh-Laurie, Chapter 5. Expression and Maintenance of Organismic Polarity, Allison L. Burnett (editor), Biology of Hydra, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (Academic Press), pages 160-161, As a result or these interactions, the presence of a hypostome inhibits the formation of another hypostome nearby. Removal of the hypostome causes the level of inhibition to fall; regeneration of it restores this level (Webster, 1966).
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Any of certain mouth appendages of some insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and hydrozoa; in particular:
The ventral mouthpart plate in trilobites;
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Any of certain mouth appendages of some insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and hydrozoa; in particular:
The barbed attachment structure associated with the mouthparts of parasitic arachnids (e.g. ticks);
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Any of certain mouth appendages of some insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and hydrozoa; in particular:
The oral tip surrounded by tentacles in hydrozoan cnidarians.
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Irish:
hipeastóm
— appendage
