entoplastic (entoplastik)

[ These products are therefore either ectoplastic or ento E. R. Lankester, Encyc. Brit., XIX. 832. plastic. entoplastron (en-to-plas'tron), n.; pl. entoplas tra (-trä). [NL., ous arthropods, as in tarantulas, scorpions, the king-crab, etc. Generally called endosternite. In the Arachnids (Mygale, Scorpio) and in Limulus a large internal cartilaginous plate - the ento-sternite - is developed as a support for a large series of muscles. E. R. Lankester , Encyc. Brit., XVI. 676. entosternum (en-tō-ster'num), n. [NL., ἐντός , within, + στέρνον , the breast, chest: see sternum.] In entom.: (a) A collective name for the apodemes or interior proce es of the sternum in the thorax of an insect. (b) Any one of these proce es, generally distinguished as antefurca, me so furca, and post furca. entosthoblast (en-tos'thō-blast), n. [ τοσθε , before a vowel έντοσθεν , from within ( ἐντός , within, + -θε , -θεν , a demonstrative suffix, from), + βλαστός , & bud, germ.] In physiol., the so-called nucleus of the nucleolus or entoblast. Aga iz . entotic