Zool. [ad. mod.L. apodema (itself often used), f. Gr. ἀπό from + δέμας body, frame.] One of the peculiar processes on the exoskeleton of the thorax of Arthropods, which serve as attachment for muscles and other appendages.
1852. Dana, Crustac., I. 49. No sella turcica or median apodeme.
[1880. Huxley, Cray-Fish, iii. 99. The front end … is fixed to a series of processes of the exoskeleton of the thorax called apodemata.]
