"plagiostomy" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1922, Proceedings of the Section of Sciences - Volume 25, page 375",
          "text": "From its original subcerebral position (orthognathism) it shifts into a precerebral position (proguathism). That in connection with this rotation plagiostomy changes into teleostomy we will pass over in silence, although this phenomenon would give amble scope for interesting observations.",
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          "ref": "1991, Biology Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, page 279",
          "text": "They are comparatively large, without outgrowths, of a rounded shape, with a flattened ventral surface and cryptostomy or plagiostomy with a lip.",
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          "text": "Two other morphological features, plagiostomy and cryptostomy, are considered to be adaptations to life in soil; both involve a reduction in the size of the pseudostome in proportion to the test and the formation of a vestibule (Fig. 11) and both tend, therefore, to protect the cell against dessicaation (Bonnet, 1961a, 1964).",
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        "An adaptation in which the mouth is diminished, firmly closed, and located on the ventral side protected deeply within a carapace."
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        "(biology) An adaptation in which the mouth is diminished, firmly closed, and located on the ventral side protected deeply within a carapace."
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