1) Membranous layer
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Tapetum (Latin for carpet or tapestry) can refer to: ...
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[botany] The tapetum is a layer of nutritive cells found within the sporangium, particularly within the anther, of flowering plants. Tapetum is important for the development of pollen grains. The cells are usually bigger and normally have more than one nucleus per cell. As the sporogenous cells undergo mitosis, the nuclei of tapetal cells a...
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• (n.) An area in the pigmented layer of the choroid coat of the eye in many animals, which has an iridescent or metallic luster and helps to make the eye visible in the dark. Sometimes applied to the whole layer of pigmented epithelium of the choroid.
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(from the article `Magnoliidae`) ...partition to make four compartments. The stamens of the most primitive Magnoliidae have four pollen sacs, although some genera of a few families ...
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1. <cell biology> Layer of reflective tissue just behind the pigmented retinal epithelium of many vertebrate eyes. May consist either of a layer of guanine crystals or a layer of connective tissue. In bovine eyes reflects a blue green iridescent colour. ... 2. <plant biology> Layer of cells in the sporangium of a vascular plant that nou...
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(tә-pe´tәm) a covering structure or layer of cells. a stratum in the human brain composed of fibers from the body and splenium of the corpus callosum sweeping around the lateral ventricle. tapetum lucidum the iridescent epithelium of the choroid of animals ...
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(1) Layer of reflective tissue just behind the pigmented retinal epithelium of many vertebrate eyes. May consist either of a layer of guanine crystals, or a layer of connective tissue. In bovine eyes reflects a blue-green iridescent colour. (2) Layer of cells in the sporangium of a vascular plant that nourishes the developing spores.
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Ta·pe'tum noun [ New Latin , from Latin
tapete a carpet, a tapestry.]
(Anat.) An area in the pigmented layer of the choroid coat of the eye in many animals, which has an iridescent or metallic luster and helps to make the eye visible in the dark. Sometimes applied to the whole layer ...
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Type: Term Pronunciation: tă-pē′tŭm, -tă Definitions: 1. In general, any membranous layer or covering. 2. neuroanatomy a thin sheet of fibers in the lateral wall of the temporal and occipital horns of the lateral ventricle, continuous with the corpus callosum. 3. A dense layer in the choroidea of the eye of many mammalian ...
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The tapetum is the irregular sector in certain animal's eyes which shines owing to an absence of black pigment.
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The reflective layer in the upper half of the back of the eye.
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Latin = a carpet or coverlet; hence the roof of the posterior horn of the lateral ventricle.
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