e head to the tail.
Caudo-dorsad: directed upward and toward the tail.
Caudula -ae: a little tail.
Caul: the fatty mass of larvae from which the organs of the future
adult were supposed to develop: = epiploon.
Cauliculus: the larger of the two stalks supporting the calyx of the
mushroom body.
Caulis: the funicle of antenna: the corneous basal part of jaws.
Cavate: hollowed out; cave-like.
Cavernicolous: cave-inhabiting.
Cavernous: divided into small spaces or little caverns.
Cavity -as: a hollow space or opening.
Cecidium: a gall.
Cell: any space between or bounded by veins: in the Comstock
system the cells derive their names from the vein forming the Tupper
margin: e.g. all just below the radius are radial cells; and they are
numbered from the base outward, as radial 1, 2, etc.: the living unit;
protoplasm differentiated into cytoplasm and nucleus, from which
units all but the lowest plants and animals are developed by division
and consequent increase into a multicellular condition: a
compartment or division of a nest or honey-comb.
Cellule: a portion of a wing included between veins; usually applied to
a small area completely inclosed, rarely to interspaces where no closed
area is formed.
Cenchrus -rib: minute, often white marks, or membranous spaces on
the metanotum of some Hymenoptera.
Cenogonous: producing young at one time oviparously, at another
viviparously as in plant-lice.
Centimeter: abb. Cm.: = .01 meter = .394 inch; 2.54 Cm. = one inch.
Centrad: toward the centre or interior.
Central foveola: see median foveola.
Centrolecithal: applied to eggs in which the food yolk is central.
Centrosome: a spherical body that appears outside the nucleus of a
cell.
Cephalad: toward the head, along the central line of the body.
Cephalic: belonging or attached to the head; directed toward the
head.
Cephalic bristles: Diptera; specialized bristles occurring on the head.
Cephalic foramen: the posterior or occipital foramen of head through
which the dorsal vessel, oesophagus, salivary ducts and ventral nerve cords
pass from head to prothorax.
Cephalization: concentration toward the head.
Cephalomere: one of the head segments of an arthropod.
Cephalophragm: a v-shaped partition which divides the head of some
Orthoptera, into an anterior and posterior chamber.
Cephalon: the head.
Cephalosome: the head as one of the three regions.
Cephalotheca: the head covering i
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