What's the difference between medusoid and sporosac?
Medusoid
Definition:
(a.) Like a medusa; having the fundamental structure of a medusa, but without a locomotive disk; -- said of the sessile gonophores of hydroids.
(n.) A sessile gonophore. See Illust. under Gonosome.
Example Sentences:
(1) We investigated a case of maxillary sinus infection caused by the medusoid mutant of the basidiomycetous fungus Schizophyllum commune.
(2) The strobila, specificially the ephyra, is a mixture of both polypoid and medusoid response types.
(3) Perhaps in the stem lineage of the Bilateria a hydroid-like or medusoid-like ancestor fell over on one side onto a substrate (pleurothetism).
(4) Distinct patterns identified in the order of frequency are adenoid (six), solid (three), and medusoid (two).
(5) Therefore, the ephyra is a mixture of polypoid and medusoid behaviors.
(6) Hyalinized connective tissue and clear cells reminiscent of hair follicle glassy membranes and outer root sheath were present in a solid and the medusoid tumors.
(7) Morphologies of both typical and medusoid forms of S. commune were determined.
(8) Swimming in the ephyra is a medusoid behavior but feeding and spasm are coordinated by the DNN and are polypoid responses.
Sporosac
Definition:
(n.) A hydrozoan reproductive zooid or gonophore which does not become medusoid in form or structure. See Illust. under Athecata.
(n.) An early or simple larval stage of trematode worms and some other invertebrates, which is capable or reproducing other germs by asexual generation; a nurse; a redia.