mid-axis

mid-axis
n. (MOLLUSCA: Bivalvia)
Straight line in commissural plane at a right angle to the hinge axis and beginning at the midpoint of the ventral margin of the resilifer.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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