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Human Anatomy & Physiology (11th Edition)

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What do you mean by sclerites?

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Sclerites may happen essentially confined in a creature, for example, the sting of a cone shell. Likewise, they can be pretty much dissipated, for example, tufts of cautious sharp, mineralised bristles as in numerous marine Polychaetes. Or on the other hand, they can happen as organized, yet detached or inexactly associated clusters, for example, the mineral "teeth" in the radula of numerous Mollusca, the valves of Chitons, the nose of Cephalopod, or the enunciated exoskeletons of Arthropoda.

At the point when sclerites are composed into an unsaid structure, that structure might be alluded to as a scleritome, a term generally utilized in fossil science.

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