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Word: Proctodeum
Speech Type: Noun
late 19th century; earliest use found in Ray Lankester (1847–1929), zoologist. From procto- + ancient Greek ὁδαῖος that is on or by the road (in ancient Greek only in ὁδαῖα freight, merchandise; in Byzantine Greek designating the god Hermes, to whom statues were set up by the roadside; from ὁδός way + -αῖος, suffix forming adjectives) + -um, after Latin nouns in -um
The posterior portion of the alimentary canal, especially in an embryo (in which it occurs as an invagination of the epiblast or ectoderm); specifically the hindgut of an insect or other arthropod.
- proctodaeum
