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CUSPIS [2 records]

Record 1 2016-08-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insects, Centipedes, Spiders, and Scorpions
DEF

The outer, apical unmovable finger of volsella [in Hymenoptera].

OBS

cuspides; distivolsellae: plural.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Insectes, mille-pattes, araignées et scorpions
CONT

Au bord médio-ventral de chaque gonocoxite est attaché un appendice particulier, la volselle [...] qui comporte une partie principale, le corps volsellaire («lamina volsellaris» ou «volsellar plate» [...]), et deux lobes apicaux, un lobe externe fixe, la cuspis, et un lobe interne plus grand, articulé à sa base, le digitus.

Spanish

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Record 2 2003-11-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Heart
DEF

A leaflet of one of the heart's valves.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cœur
DEF

Repli membraneux situé au niveau d'un orifice cardiaque [...] destiné à s'opposer au retour du courant sanguin vers son point d'origine.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Corazón
DEF

Membrana que permite la circulación de un líquido en un solo sentido.

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