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serosa

[ si-roh-suh, -zuh ]

noun

, plural se·ro·sas, se·ro·sae [si-, roh, -see, -zee].
  1. Embryology, Zoology.
    1. the chorion.
    2. a similar membrane in insects and other lower invertebrates.


serosa

/ sɪˈrəʊsə /

noun

  1. another name for serous membrane
  2. one of the thin membranes surrounding the embryo in an insect's egg
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of serosa1

1885–90; < New Latin serōsa, feminine of serōsus, equivalent to Latin ser ( um ) serum + -ōsus -ose 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of serosa1

C19: from New Latin, from serōsus relating to serum
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Example Sentences

Wheeler, however, compares with the “dorsal organ” the peculiar extra embryonic membrane or indusium which he has observed between serosa and amnion in the embryo of the grasshopper Xiphidium.

Ventral plate: a thickening of the blastoderm of an egg from which the embryo, but not the amnion or serosa is formed.

This depends upon whether the inflammation of the serosa quickly spreads or remains local.

In some midges and in caddis-flies the serosa becomes ruptured and absorbed, while the germ band, still clothed with the amnion, grows around the yolk.

S, serosa; A, amnion; E, ectoderm; N, rudiment of nerve-cord; M, mesodermal pouches.

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