Embryology. [Intended as a correction (after Stomato-) of the irregularly formed STOMODÆUM.] = STOMODÆUM. Hence Stomatodæal a. = STOMODÆAL.
1887. A. M. Marshall & Hurst, Jun. Zool., 141. The stomatodœum or anterior portion of the [alimentary] canal [of a crayfish].
1888. Huxley & Martin, Elem. Biol. (ed. 2), 171. The stomatodæum; a sac-like involution of the epidermis abutting against [the mesenteron].
1893. A. M. Marshall, Vertebr. Embryol., 148. The stomatodæal pit rapidly deepens.
