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‖ mesenteron|mɛˈsɛntərɒn| [mod.L., f. Gr. µέσ-ος middle + ἔντερον gut, bowel.] ‘The digestive portion of the primitive alimentary canal or archenteron’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.). Hence mesenteˈronic a. (in recent Dicts.).
1877Ray Lankester in Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 431 As archenteron divides into parentera and metenteron, so metenteron divides into hepatentera or hepatic cæca and mesenteron. 1893A. E. Shipley Zool. Invert. 312 Two long white tubes—the Malpighian tubules—open into the posterior end of the mesenteron. |