Sentence examples for midgut from inspiring English sources

Absorption occurs in the midgut and hindgut.

The midgut has a variable number (usually four pairs) of blind extensions, or ceca, that extend into the first segments of the legs (coxae).

The endocardial tube branches anteriorly into two tubes, the ventral aortas; a similar branching of the endocardial tube posteriorly forms the two vitelline veins, which carry blood from the midgut endoderm or from the yolk sac (when present) to the heart.

In the Anoplura the esophagus passes straight into the large midgut with or without a swelling forming a crop.

Members of the superfamily Amblycera have well-developed, comblike structures at the base of the crop, which prevent undigested feather parts or other particles from passing into the midgut; in the family Philopteridae these combs are smaller and lie at the anterior part of the crop, whereas the Trichodectidae and Anoplura have no crop teeth.

The midgut is followed by a relatively long hindgut that passes the length of the trunk to the anus located between the last pair of cirri.

Barnacles are also able to sequester heavy metals and brominated compounds as nodules in the wall of the midgut.

The digestive system consists of a foregut formed from the mouth region (stomodaeum), a hindgut formed similarly from the anal region (proctodaeum), and a midgut (mesenteron).

The termination of the midgut is marked by the attachment of the malpighian tubules, the chief organs of excretion.

The heart is located to the rear of the carapace above the gut, which is basically a straight tube consisting of the stomodeum, or foregut, the mesenteron, or midgut, and the proctodeum, or hindgut.

They enter the gut at the midgut-hindgut connection.