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adambulacral

[¦ad·am·byə′lāk·rəl]
(invertebrate zoology)
Lying adjacent to the ambulacrum.
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A set of ambulacral and adambulacral plates delimit each side of the ambulacral furrow, and the number of plates increase according to increases in the number of podia grown (the number of adambulacral plates is one less than the number of tube feet) (Fig.
The development of skeletal plates related to the ambulacral system (adambulacral and ambulacral plates) of the post-metamorphic settler of Echinaster (Othilia) brasiliensis occurs radially.
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