PERITROPHIC MEMBRANE


Meaning of PERITROPHIC MEMBRANE in English

|perə.|träfik- noun

Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary peri- + -trophic

: a tubular chitinous sheath inside the midgut of many insects that is continuously secreted at the anterior end of the midgut

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