The muscles are attached either directly to internal protrusions of its external skeleton, called apodemes, or indirectly, by filaments attached to the connection points.
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Apodeme
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Arabic
1 entries- أَبُودِيم noun (an ingrowth of the arthropod exoskeleton, serving as an attachment site for muscles)
Portuguese
1 entries- apódema noun (an ingrowth of the arthropod exoskeleton, serving as an attachment site for muscles)
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