extracellular digestion

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• extracellular digestion — Digestion of food within a cavity of the digestive system …   Dictionary of invertebrate zoology

• Digestion — For the industrial process, see anaerobic digestion. For the treatment of precipitates in analytical chemistry, see Precipitation (chemistry)#Digestion. Entrails redirects here. For the practice of reading entrails, see Extispicy. Digestion is… …   Wikipedia

• digestion — digestional, adj. /di jes cheuhn, duy /, n. 1. the process in the alimentary canal by which food is broken up physically, as by the action of the teeth, and chemically, as by the action of enzymes, and converted into a substance suitable for… …   Universalium

• extracellular — Outside the cells. * * * ex·tra·cel·lu·lar .ek strə sel yə lər adj situated or occurring outside a cell or the cells of the body <extracellular digestion> <extracellular enzymes> ex·tra·cel·lu·lar·ly adv * * * adj. situated or… …   Medical dictionary

• extracellular — adjective Date: 1867 situated or occurring outside a cell or the cells of the body < extracellular digestion > < extracellular enzymes > • extracellularly adverb …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Extra-cellular digestion — is a process where saprobionts feed by secreting enzymes through the cell membrane onto the food. The enzymes catalyse the food into molecules small enough for them to be phagocytosed. Since digestion is done outside the cell, it is said to be… …   Wikipedia

• digestive system, invertebrate — ▪ anatomy Introduction       any of the systems used by invertebrates for the process of digestion. Included are vacuolar and channel network systems, as well as more specialized saccular and tubular systems. Comparison of unicellular and… …   Universalium

• bivalve — bivalvular /buy val vyeuh leuhr/, adj. /buy valv /, n. 1. Also called lamellibranch. Zool. any mollusk, as the oyster, clam, scallop, or mussel, of the class Bivalvia, having two shells hinged together, a soft body, and lamellate gills. adj. 2.… …   Universalium

• animal — animalic /an euh mal ik/, animalian /an euh may lee euhn, mayl yeuhn/, adj. /an euh meuhl/, n. 1. any member of the kingdom Animalia, comprising multicellular organisms that have a well defined shape and usually limited growth, can move… …   Universalium

• mollusk — molluskan, molluscan /meuh lus keuhn/, adj., n. mollusklike, adj. /mol euhsk/, n. any invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically having a calcareous shell of one, two, or more pieces that wholly or partly enclose the soft, unsegmented body,… …   Universalium

• Gastrovascular cavity — Gastro vascular cavity, as the name indicates, functions in both digestion and the distribution of nutrients and particles to all parts of the body. Organisms belonging to two major phyla, the Cnidaria and the Platyhelminthes, possess… …   Wikipedia