ecdysis
IPA: ɪkdˈaɪsɪs
noun
- The stripping off of an outer layer of skin by snakes and certain other animals; typically in accommodation to growth or wear-and-tear; as distinct from the term "moulting", not in reference to the shedding of hair or feathers.
- The shedding of an exoskeleton, as in insects and crustaceans.
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Examples of "ecdysis" in Sentences
- The cysts undergo ecdysis a number of times.
- Hence I propose to merge this article into Ecdysis.
- Ecdysis occurs at least once during the active season.
- Her power continuously grows each day after her first ecdysis.
- Death is caused by incomplete ecdysis and cuticle malformation.
- CCAP is responsible for activation of the ecdysis motor program.
- If the counter ever reaches 999, the second ecdysis would occur.
- This process of molting is called ecdysis and gives the group its name.
- Growth is accomplished by periodic shedding of the exoskeleton ecdysis .
- A less common word for the process is ecdysis (ek'dih-sis; "get out" G).
- The exocuticle and epicuticle resist digestion and are hence shed at ecdysis.
- Ecdysis is necessary because the exoskeleton is rigid and cannot grow like skin.
- It's from "ecdysis," a word for the process of shedding one's own skin, snake-style.
- During pre-adult life, the exoskeleton is therefore renewed a number of times by the process of moulting or ecdysis.
- It might be a good idea to relate strip-teasing in some way to the...zoological phenomenon of molting,...which is ecdysis.
- Spiders grow by shedding their old exoskeleton and replacing it with a larger, less constraining hide, a process known as ecdysis.
- It inhibits ecdysis and ultimately, apolysis, the first stage in the moulting process in which separation of the old cuticle from the underlying epidermal cells takes place.