auricular valve

auricular valve
1. A mechanism that controls the flow of blood in various invertebrates.
2. (ARTHROPODA: Insecta)
Pouches with incurrent ostioles in the heart that prevent the backflow or escape of hemolymph from this vessel.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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