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单词 myophan
释义

myophann.

Brit. /ˈmʌɪəfan/, U.S. /ˈmaɪoʊˌfæn/
Forms: 1800s– myophan, 1800s– myophane.
Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Myophan.
Etymology: < German Myophan (Haeckel 1873, in Jenaische Zeitschr. 7 537) < myo- myo- comb. form + -phan -phane comb. form; later remodelled after -phane comb. form.
Zoology. disused.
A contractile fibrillar structure in certain ciliate protozoans; a myoneme. Frequently attributive.
ΚΠ
1875 Monthly Miscrosc. Jrnl. Oct. 183 As they are thus only sarcode filaments, Haeckel designates them by the term ‘myophan’.
1880–1 W. Saville-Kent Man. Infusoria I. 58 The muscular or myophan layer.
1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 864/2 We cannot assent to the general distinction of a ‘myophane’ layer as a component of the cortical substance.
1903 J. B. Farmer et al. in E. R. Lankester Treat. Zool. I. ii. 365 The ‘myophan’ thread in the stalk of Vorticella.
1926 G. N. Calkins Biol. Protozoa ii. 107 (caption) To show neurophanes and myophanes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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