Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hatschek's pit

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hatschek's pit
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

1

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A deep ciliated fossa on the dorsal midline of the buccal cavity in lancelets.

Example Sentences

"If the preoral (Hatschek's) pit be regarded as a gland, it has been suggested by v. Wijhe that it is comparable to the neural gland of the Tunicata, and that the ciliated groove is comparable to the opening of that gland, the dorsal tubercle, the edges of which are frequently drawn out in a manner very similar to the course of the ciliated groove of Amphioxus."
"[…] that most authorities now accept the possibility that Hatschek's pit might be the homologue - in some ancestral form, the precursor - of Rathke's pouch, and so of the adenohypophysis."
"It is known as Hatschek's pit and has been found to react positively to antibodies against substance P, met-enkephalin, cholecystokinin (CCK), mammalian luteinizing hormone (LH), and the enzyme aromatase (P450ₐᵣₒ), which converts certain androgens into estrogens (see Chapter 3)."

Etymology

Named for its discoverer, Berthold Hatschek (1854–1941).

Inflected Forms

Hatschek's pits (plural)

Synonyms

Hatschek’s groove preoral pit

Questions

What does hatschek's pit mean?: A deep ciliated fossa on the dorsal midline of the buccal cavity in lancelets.
Where does hatschek's pit come from?: Named for its discoverer, Berthold Hatschek (1854–1941).

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