Definitions

Lateral cecum

• (Taxon-specific: Order Mysida) One of up to five pairs of digestive glands opening ventrolaterally into digestive tract at border between pyloric stomach and midgut. (See also dorsal cecum).
  (syn. lateral diverticulum, digestive cecum) [Stachowitsch, 1992]

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