protostoma

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English

Noun

protostoma (plural protostomata)

  1. (embryology, obsolete) Synonym of blastopore
    • 1919, Ernest William MacBride, Text-book of Embryology:
      It is frequently stated by critics of the protostoma hypothesis that it involves a reversal of dorsal and ventral sides during the evolution of Vertebrates from their invertebrate ancestors but it will be gathered from what has been said that this criticism rests on a misunderstanding.
    • 1921, John Graham Kerr, Zoology for Medical Students, page 150:
      The opening of this, the protostoma, becomes elongated, taking on an elliptical shape, and then it narrows in the middle, its outline becoming that of a dumb-bell.
  2. (zoology) In nematodes, a particular division of the stoma (mouthlike opening).
    • 1968, Konstantin Ivanovich Skirabin, Key to Parasitic Nematodes, volume 1:
      The protostoma with its wall—the protorhabdion—is the major part of the stoma.
    • 1977, Ivan Antonovich Rubtsov, Aquatic Mermithidae of the Fauna of the USSR:
      Conventionally, the stoma is divided into three parts: the anterior chamber or cheilostoma, the middle or protostoma, and the posterior or telostoma.

Derived terms

Italian

Etymology

From proto- +‎ stoma.

Noun

protostoma m (plural protostomi)

  1. (zoology) protostome
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