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gas vacuole (medicine)


gas vacuole


A prokaryotic cellular organelle consisting of cylindrical vesicles around 75 x 300nm, often in clusters. The wall of the gas vacuole, which is permeable to gases but not to water, is formed from a monolayer of a single protein. Gas vacuoles are found mainly in planktonic cyanobacteria and their prime function is to make the bacterium buoyant.


Schizognathous (medicine)


schizognathous
<ornithology, zoology> Having the maxillo-palatine bones separate from each Other and from the vomer, which is pointed in front, as in the gulls, snipes, grouse, and many Other birds.

Origin: Schize- + Gr. The jaw.

Source: Websters Dictionary