Definition of Uropod. Meaning of Uropod. Synonyms of Uropod

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Definition of Uropod

Uropod
Uropod U"ro*pod, n. [2d uro- + -pod.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of the abdominal appendages of a crustacean, especially one of the posterior ones, which are often larger than the rest, and different in structure, and are used chiefly in locomotion. See Illust. of Crustacea, and Stomapoda.

Meaning of Uropod from wikipedia

- Uropods are posterior appendages found on a wide variety of crustaceans. They typically have functions in locomotion. Uropods are often defined as the...
- Uropods, in immunology, refer to the hind part of polarized cells during cell migration that stabilize and move the cell. Polarized leukocytes move using...
- segments total. While the uropods of pillbugs are relatively quite small, flipping a pill bug over will reveal the small uropod overlapping the pleotelson...
- as gills and propulsion), and the last segment bears a pair of biramous uropods (posterior limbs). In males, the second pair of pleopods, and sometimes...
- advanced in crabs. The telson is no longer functional in crabs, and the uropods are absent, having probably evolved into small devices for holding the...
- segmentscalled somites or pleonites – and a telson. They lack any sort of uropod seen in some decapods. King crabs are typically found in deep waters, especially...
- the two-segmented nature of the antennal flagellum, by the form of the uropods, and by the ability to roll into a ball. Within the family Armadillidiidae...
- pleopods second pleopods third pleopods fourth pleopods fifth pleopods uropods Pleopods (also called swimmerets) are primarily swimming legs, and are...
- terminates in the telson flanked by two pairs of appendages called the uropods. The uropods allow the shrimp to swim backward, and function like rudders, steering...
- Armadillidium vulgare, male pleon, ventral view. en endopodite ep epimeron ex exopodite lg pleopodal lung pp pleopod pr protopodite pt pleotelson ur uropod...