rectal pad

rectal pad
(ARTHROPODA: Insecta)
Columnar epithelium (usually 6) extending longitudinally along the rectum, important in the reabsorption of water, salts and amino acids from the urine.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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