Word Meanings - ENDOSTERNITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The part of each apodeme derived from the intersternal membrane in Crustacea and insects.

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• DERIVE
  To obtain one substance from another by actual or theoretical substitution; as, to derive an organic acid from its corresponding hydrocarbon. Syn. -- To trace; deduce; infer. (more info) 1. To turn the course of, as water; to divert and distribute
• MEMBRANE
  A thin layer or fold of tissue, usually supported by a fibrous network, serving to cover or line some part or organ, and often secreting or absorbing certain fluids. Note: The term is also often applied to the thin, expanded parts, of
• MEMBRANEOUS
  See MEMBRANOUS
• DERIVATIONAL
  Relating to derivation. Earle.
• DERIVATIVE
  Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word. Derivative circulation, a modification of the circulation found
• DERIVATION
  The operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called the law of derivation, as the of differentiation or of integration. (more info) 1. A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source. T. Burnet. 2.
• CRUSTACEA
  One of the classes of the arthropods, including lobsters and crabs; -- so called from the crustlike shell with which they are covered. Note: The body usually consists of an anterior part, made up of the head and thorax combined, called
• DERIVEMENT
  That which is derived; deduction; inference. I offer these derivements from these subjects. W. Montagu.
• APODEME
  One of the processes of the shell which project inwards and unite with one another, in the thorax of many Crustacea.
• DERIVER
  One who derives.
• CRUSTACEAN
  Of or pertaining to the Crustacea; crustaceous. -- n.
• DERIVATE
  Derived; derivative. H. Taylor. -- n.
• DERIVAL
  Derivation. The derival of e from a. Earle.
• DERIVABLE
  That can be derived; obtainable by transmission; capable of being known by inference, as from premises or data; capable of being traced, as from a radical; as, income is derivable from various sources. All honor derivable upon me. South.
• DERIVABLY
  By derivation.
• INTERSTERNAL
  Between the sternal; -- said of certain membranes or parts of insects and crustaceans.
• MISDERIVE
  1. To turn or divert improperly; to misdirect. Bp. Hall. 2. To derive erroneously.
• SUBDERIVATIVE
  A word derived from a derivative, and not directly from the root; as, "friendliness" is a subderivative, being derived from "friendly", which is in turn a derivative from "friend."
• REISSNER'S MEMBRANE
  The thin membrane which separates the canal of the cochlea from the vestibular scala in the internal ear.