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Popular in laboratory studies for the ability to regenerate lost parts
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planarian
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A planarian is one of many flatworms of the Turbellaria class . It is also the common name for a member of the genus Planaria within the family Planariidae . Sometimes it also refers to the genus Dugesia . Planaria are common to many parts of the world, ...
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n. Any of various flatworms of the order ''(taxlink Tricladida order noshow=1)'' living in marine, freshwater, or terrestrial environments.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Planarian \Pla*na"ri*an\, n. (Zo["o]l.) One of the Planarida, or Dendroc[oe]la; any turbellarian worm. -- Pla*na"ri*an , a.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. free-swimming mostly freshwater flatworms; popular in laboratory studies for the ability to regenerate lost parts [syn: planaria ]
Usage examples of planarian.
Touch a planarian firmly with a glass rod and it will curl itself into a ball - its normal response to a threatening situation.
Your assistants, hereinafter to be called students, have been selected for planarian accelerated education.
Edgar sipped his drink and grimly contemplated the entire planarian idea.
When these trained worms were ground up and fed to other planarian worms, these latter learned the same responses faster than worms not so fed.
A small, hairless, closed-eye cross between a planarian and Khrushchev, ID tag illegible.
Robert Jordan and James McConnell, while still graduate students, began doing experiments with planarian worms at the University of Texas, studies that McConnell continued while a professor at the University of Michigan.
They assembled and reared into a single mass, cobra-like, but flat as a planarian worm.
Both ends of the planarian worm elongate, and soon there are two worms, two identities, two digestive systems, each as greedy as the original, each a whole, unwounded, unharmed by its experience.
The completeness of it is a little surprising, because laboratory tests of planarian worms have established that conditioned reflexes carry over into the new growth.
Humphries-Jacobsen experiment myself as an undergrad, training a planarian named Karen BlackI called it that because of its cute little cross-eyed faceto contract when exposed to light.
Both ends of the planarian worm elongate, and soon there are two worms, two identities, two digestive systems each as greedy as the original, each a whole, unwounded, unharmed by its experience.