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n. [Gr. meta, after; L. cerebrum, brain](ARTHROPODA: Crustacea)Ganglion of antennal somite; tritocerebrum.
Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. A.R. Maggenti and S.L. Gardne. 2005.
metacerebrum
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metacerebrum — Ganglion of antennal somite. (Syn. tritocerebrum) [Moore and McCormick, 1969]. Ganglion of antennal somite. (Syn. tritocerebrum) [McLaughlin, 1980] … Crustacea glossary
tritocerebrum — See: metacerebrum [Martin, 2005]. See: metacerebrum [McLaughlin, 1980]. Third ganglion of the crustacean brain, a postoral ganglion that probably represents the first postoral somite and that forms a pair of circumenteric connectives that extend… … Crustacea glossary
tritocerebrum — n. [Gr. tritos, third; L. cerebrum, brain] (ARTHROPODA) The posterior (third) small part of an arthropod brain that gives rise to nerves that innervate the labium, the digestive tract (stomatogastric nerves), the chelicerae of chelicerates, and… … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
