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ostium

A Dictionary of Zoology | 1999 | 249 words | Copyright

ostium An opening, derived from the Latin word for a door or opening. In Porifera, one of the openings through which water is drawn into the body. In Arthropoda, one of the openings in the wall of the heart into the pericardial (blood-filled) sinus.

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