Gastrovascular Definition

Gastrovascular Sentence Examples

• Thus the disposition of the endoderm-cavities is roughly comparable to the gastrovascular system of a medusa.

• The archenteron becomes the gastrovascular system or coelenteron.

• The ectoderm covers the whole external surface of the animal, while the endoderm lines the coelenteron or gastrovascular space; the two layers meet each other, and become continuous, at the edge of the mouth.

• The gastrovascular system shows every degree of complexity from a very primitive to a highly elaborate type of structure.

• The mesogloea becomes enormously increased in quantity (hence the popular name "jelly-fish"), and in correlation with this the endoderm-layer lining the coelenteron becomes pressed together in the interradial areas and undergoes concrescence, forming a more or less complicated gastrovascular system (see Medusa).