NOUN
- regeneration on a reduced scale of a body part; observed especially in invertebrates such as certain lobsters
How To Use morphallaxis In A Sentence
- The result of morphallaxis is usually a smaller but complete individual, derived entirely from the tissues of part of the original animal.
- Recently we have begun investigations of synaptic molecules up-regulated specifically during morphallaxis.
- He coined the terms morphallaxis and epimorphosis to describe the two major types of regeneration.
- If the body of an intact Hydra is severed in two, it regenerates by morphallaxis, which does not require new growth.
