autospasy

autospasy
n. [Gr. autos, self; spaein, to pluck off]
(ARTHROPODA: Chelicerata)
The loss of appendages by breaking them at a predetermined locus of weakness when pulled by an outside force; frequent in spiders and other arachnids.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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