Epipodite sentence example
epipodite
- Very often the basal segment of the protopodite bears, on the outer side, a lamellar appendage (more rarely, two), the epipodite, which may function as a gill.
- Protopodite, endopodite, exopodite, and epipodite were considered to be the morphological units of the crustacean limb.
- Fl, The flabellum which becomes the epipodite of higher forms.
- In the Cumacea and Tanaidacea only the first thoracic limb has a branchial epipodite.