APODEMA

(Lat.)n.n. A*p(a%p)-o7d’e2m-a’, Gen., apodem’- at as (-tis), See pl., ‘APODEMATA. » opod A]æ)]l)EMAL, adj.?d’e?m-a?l. Relating to an apodema. APODEMATA (Lat.), n. n., pl. of apodema. ’- ’. Perhaps from axo8eiv, to bind or tie fast. tie apodèmes. A\)ode me.s; certain proce es of the exoskeleton in crustaceans, usually dipping inward in the form of septa for the attachment of muscles, but sometimes extending outward. They are distinguished from the epidemata by consisting of two plates, one of which proceeds from one, and the other from the other, of two adjacent somites. According to their situation, they are termed inter-maxil- Jary, thoracic, ete. [A, 301, 859; L, 168.]