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Enlarged nerve fibers that transmit rapid impulses in certain mollusks, crustaceans, annelids, pogonaphorans and insects; giant fibre.
Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. A.R. Maggenti and S.L. Gardne. 2005.
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