integument
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Similar to a hypodermic needle, a nematode uses its stylet to pierce cells and pull out food -- in this case from the pseudoscorpion's hypodermis, part of the outer covering known as the integument.
From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2024
A double-layered integument protects the megasporangium and, later, the embryo sac.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
These changes result in selective vasodilation in the skeletal muscles, heart, lungs, liver, and integument.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
These arteries supply blood to the deep muscles of the thigh as well as ventral and lateral regions of the integument.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
Beneath them are seen brownish and violaceous blotches, the integument thus stained slowly losing its abnormal color.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
