CORPUS ALLATUM


Meaning of CORPUS ALLATUM in English

noun (plural corpora allata) Etymology: New Latin, literally, applied body Date: 1947 one of a pair of separate or fused bodies in many insects that are sometimes closely associated with the corpora cardiaca and that secrete hormones (as juvenile hormone)

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