hydrostatic skeleton

The hydrostatic skeleton allows the earthworm to burrow through the earth.

A thick cuticle gives protection, and acts as a kind of hydrostatic skeleton.

Functionally, a coelom can absorb shock or provide a hydrostatic skeleton.

These hemocoelic spaces act as an efficient hydrostatic skeleton.

They have a hydrostatic skeleton, a one-way digestion system, and bilateral symmetry.

The hydrostatic skeleton has some similarities to muscular hydrostats.

Many have fluid-filled, hydrostatic skeletons, like jellyfish or worms.

The musculature of the body-wall plays an important role and the haemocoele acts as a hydrostatic skeleton.

Helically-reinforced hydrostatic skeleton structure is typical for flexible structures as in soft-bodied animals.

It performs its hydraulic movement without fluid in a separate compartment, as in a hydrostatic skeleton.

The most simple form of skeleton is the hydrostatic skeleton found in many cold-blooded organisms and soft-bodied animals.

A muscular hydrostat, like a hydrostatic skeleton, relies on the fact that water is effectively incompressible at physiological pressures.

This hydrostatic skeleton consists of a fluid-filled body cavity surrounded by an extensible body wall.

When raised to the surface these animals burst, as they have a hydrostatic skeleton that normally experiences an average pressure of above 0.47 tons/cm (460 bars).

A hydrostatic skeleton uses hydrostatic pressure generated from muscle contraction against a liquid filled cavity.

The earthworm is a limbless annelid worm with a hydrostatic skeleton that moves by means of peristalsis.

The other group of legged terrestrial invertebrates, the velvet worms, have soft stumpy legs supported by a hydrostatic skeleton.

There are four categories of movements of a hydrostatic skeleton : elongation, shortening, bending and torsion.

Animals with tubular endoskeletons tend to be larger than animals with exoskeletons or hydrostatic skeletons.

Since the anemone lacks a skeleton, the contractile cells pull against the gastrovascular cavity, which acts as a hydrostatic skeleton.

In contrast to a hydrostatic skeleton, where muscle surrounds a fluid-filled cavity, a muscular hydrostat is composed mainly of muscle tissue.

This fluid-filled space surrounding the internal organs serves several functions like distribution of nutrients and removal of waste or supporting the body as a hydrostatic skeleton.

As an invertebrate it lacks a skeleton, but it maintains its structure with fluid-filled coelom chambers that function as a hydrostatic skeleton.

A hydrostatic skeleton or hydroskeleton is a structure found in many cold-blooded organisms and soft-bodied animals consisting of a fluid-filled cavity, the coelom, surrounded by muscles.

The body wall surrounds the coelom that is filled with fluid on which the body wall musculature acts as a hydrostatic skeleton to extend or contract the animal.