| book lung |
organ in many arachnids containing many thin folds of membrane resembling the leaves of a book
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| book lung |
[buk lung] a simple type of lung found in the spiders.
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| book lung |
A set of soft overlapping flaps, covered up by a plate on the abdomen, through which oxygen is taken up and carbon dioxide given off. Characteristic of many terrestrial arachnids such as scorpions and spiders.
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| book l. |
a lunglike invagination that functions as a gas exchange organ, found on the underside of the abdomen of many arachnids, which opens to the surface by means of a spiracle and contains numerous thin membranous lamellae arranged like book leaves.
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| book-lung |
see under lung.
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