embolus
noun/ˈɛmbələs/
Etymology The term was coined in 1848 by Rudolf Virchow From Latin embolus (“piston”), from Ancient Greek ἔμβολος (émbolos, “peg, stopper”).
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Biology, Natural sciences, Zoology The structure on the end of the palp of male arachnids which contains the opening to the ejaculatory duct.
- Those spiders with a simple bulb insert most of this; those with a complex palp insert only the embolus, which in some species is very long […]1996, Michael J Roberts, Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe, Collins, published 1996, page 22:
- Derived terms
- atheroembolus, embolic, embolism, embolo-, macroembolus, microembolus, thromboembolus