Exoskeleton

Quick meaning: Exoskeleton is a noun meaning (anatomy) A hard outer structure that provides both structure and protection to creatures such as insects and Crustacea.

Meaning

(anatomy) A hard outer structure that provides both structure and protection to creatures such as insects and Crustacea.

More Meanings

1. A wearable robotic machine used for aided or augmented mobility.

Example Sentences

Ordinarily, allergy to animals is due to either their fine dander which becomes aerosolized or to the exoskeleta, pupae, or feces of their ectoparasites.

Drawings supplied with NR's council application show a bridge with an exoskeleton that repeats some of the angles of Hitachi's '800' series trains which LNER and TransPennine Express run through the station.

This is the case not only with all forms provided with exoskeleta and endoskeleta, into the composition of which lime largely enters, but also with those which exercise the precipitating effect on the calcium salts they absorb from sea water, the precipitation rarely going so far as to form a distinct deposit in the cells or tissues of the organism.

After separation, the next generation of daughters resumes the photosynthetic fixation (reduction) of carbon, the sequestration of phosphorus, nitrogen, and mineral nutrients (up to a score), and the synthesis of the proteins that will contribute to the generational doubling of biomass. Structures such as flagella, scales, and exoskeleta also have to be reallocated or copied.

Word Forms

• exoskeletons
• exoskeleta

Antonyms for exoskeleton

Common opposites include endoskeleton.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include chitinous, ectoskeleton, sclerite, dermoskeleton, semiexoskeleton, exocuticle.

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