entogastric (entogastrik)

[ ignate a method of multiplication observed in certain Dis cophora of the group Trachynemata, and unknown among other Hydrozoa. It consists in the growth of a bud from the gastric cavity, into which it eventually pa es on its way outward; while in all other cases gemmation takes place by the formation of a diverticulum of the whole wall of the gastrovascular cavity, which projects on the free surface of the body, and is detached thence (if it becomes detached) immediately into the circumjacent water. See allœogenesis. The details of this proce of entogastric gemmation have been traced by Haeckel in Car marina hastata, one of the Geryonidæ. What makes this proce of asexual multiplication more remarkable is that it takes place in Car mar inæ which have already attained sexual maturity, and in males as well as in females. Huzley , Anat. Invert., p. 135. entogastrocnemius (en-to-gas-trok-ne'm (en-to-gas-trok-nē'mi-us), n.; pl. entogastrocnemii (-1). [ trocnemial muscle, muscle, or inner head of the gastrocnemius; the gastrocnemius intern us. Coues, 1887.