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Pouches

pouch

1. A small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc.

2. That which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch; as: A protuberant belly; a paunch; so called in ridicule.

(Science: medicine) A cyst or sac containing fluid.

(Science: botany) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.

A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc, from shifting. Pouch mouth, a mouth with blubbered or swollen lips.

Origin: F. Poche a pocket, pouch, bag; probably of Teutonic origin. See Poke a bag, and cf. Poach to cook eggs, to plunder.


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Re: lungfish

... had them as non-homologous, but they had earlier been considered homologous. In the same vein, I've seen lungs presented as derived from brood pouches, but now the prevailing hypothesis considers them derived from swim bladders.

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by Darby
Sun Dec 30, 2007 3:34 pm
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: lungfish
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Views: 1072

weird flower

... check that possibility. Another odd thing that does not show well in the pictures are the throats of the larger flowers. They resemble a pelican pouches, very wide but slim from the side view. The ground where they are growing only has about 4-6" of earth over a concrete base. That is why ...

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by koolwhip
Mon Sep 25, 2006 3:34 pm
 
Forum: Botany Discussion
Topic: This odd plant just showed up outside my office. What is it?
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embryonic development

... the ceolomates can be either of schizocoelous or enterocoelous type...all deuterostomes are enterocoelous,i.e-coelom develops in pouches from enteron(digestive tube)....and those of protostomes are schizocoelous(coelom develops by splittin of mesoderm).....actually the xplanation ...

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by rg
Mon May 08, 2006 7:07 am
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: embryonic development
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Views: 2299

Gills

... between them and the bars develop and persist as gills as in fishes. In higher vertebrates the arches develop tissue between the bars forming gill pouches and clefts. These arches develop into other structures in the higher vertebrates, such as the jaw in the gnathostomes and the ear in the amphibians ...

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by Doc44
Mon Mar 06, 2006 4:47 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: fetus with gill
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Practise of placenta eating

Here's a pretty sick story, but true if my sources are accurate... The Aztecs used to deep-fat-fry babies, and carry them in pouches to snack on. When the Spanish Conquistadors came over to Central America, they introduced the Aztecs to pork. Apparently, the Aztecs made comments akin ...

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by biostudent84
Sat May 28, 2005 4:47 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Practise of placenta eating
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