Definition of Exhalant. Meaning of Exhalant. Synonyms of Exhalant

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Definition of Exhalant

Exhalant
Exhalant Ex*hal"ant, a. [Cf. F. exhalant.] Having the quality of exhaling or evaporating.

Meaning of Exhalant from wikipedia

- Exhalation (or expiration) is the flow of the breath out of an organism. In animals, it is the movement of air from the lungs out of the airways, to the...
- of the mantle cavity. There is an inhalant or incurrent siphon, and an exhalant or excurrent siphon. The water is circulated by the action of the gills...
- Gonad, 7. Gut, 8. V-shaped muscles, 9. ****, 10. Inhalant syphon, 11. Exhalant syphon, 12. Heart, 13. Stomach, 14. Esophagus, 15. Intestines, 16. Tail...
- by a byssus to a substrate. The mantle has three apertures (inhalant, exhalant, and pedal) for siphoning water and for the foot to protrude. ****les typically...
- inhalant) siphon and expel the filtered water through the excurrent (or exhalant) siphon. Adult ascidian tunicates are sessile, immobile and permanently...
- particles. Water is inhaled through an inhalant siphon, and exhaled through an exhalant siphon. It tolerates a wide range of salinity (euryhaline), and wide range...
- swimming larva enters a canal of the central cavity and is expelled with the exhalant current. Methods of a****ual reproduction include both budding and the formation...
- the terminal end of the tail, and, perhaps most importantly, there is no exhalant siphon, or analogous structure, seen in vetulicolians. However, a discovery...
- the mantle wall contract; this causes the inhalant valve to close, the exhalant valve to open and the mantle edge to lock tightly around the head. Water...
- (mamelons) and star-shaped crevices (astrorhizae), which together help vent exhalant water away from the living surface. Internally, stromatoporoids have a...