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What (who) is ecdysis$23706$ - definition
Ecdysis
![Process of ecdysis of a [[cicada]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cicada molting animated-2.gif?width=200 "Process of ecdysis of a [[cicada]].")
![Female [[crab spider]] ''[[Synema decens]]'', teneral after final ecdysis, still dangling from drop line, about to be mated, [[opisthosoma]] still shrunken](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Crab spider female in ecdysis; Genus Synema, Family Thomisidae 5725s.jpg?width=200 "Female [[crab spider]] ''[[Synema decens]]'', teneral after final ecdysis, still dangling from drop line, about to be mated, [[opisthosoma]] still shrunken")
SHEDDING OF THE EXOSKELETON IN ARTHROPODS AND OTHER INVERTEBRATES
Teneral; Molting (Arthropoda); Ecdyses
·noun The act of shedding, or casting off, an outer cuticular layer, as in the case of serpents, lobsters, ·etc.; a coming out; as, the ecdysis of the pupa from its shell; exuviation.
ecdysis
SHEDDING OF THE EXOSKELETON IN ARTHROPODS AND OTHER INVERTEBRATES
Teneral; Molting (Arthropoda); Ecdyses
['?kd?s?s, ?k'd??s?s]
¦ noun Zoology the process of shedding the old skin (in reptiles) or casting off the outer cuticle (in insects and other arthropods).
Derivatives
ecdysial ?k'd?z??l adjective
Origin
C19: from Gk ekdusis 'shedding'.
Ecdysis
SHEDDING OF THE EXOSKELETON IN ARTHROPODS AND OTHER INVERTEBRATES
Teneral; Molting (Arthropoda); Ecdyses
Ecdysis is the moulting of the cuticle in many invertebrates of the clade Ecdysozoa. Since the cuticle of these animals typically forms a largely inelastic exoskeleton, it is shed during growth and a new, larger covering is formed.
