What DOES "gastrovacular" mean?

It's been years since I studied medical terminology, but the construction of the word indicates it has something to do with the blood flow (vascular) to the digestive system (gastro) - perhaps specifically the stomach. Have you tried an internet search?
 
gastro is to do with the stomach... can't remember about vascualr.. google!
it seems to be with the way the body transports nutrients (vitamins etc) around the body
 
CentaurOreiusFan said:
From MSN Encarta:
"digestive and circulatory: describes a part of the body involved in both digestion and circulation, e.g. the central body cavity of some jellyfish."
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uh.. i'm not a really good english reader, so could you please say this in some easier words
 
From WIKIPEDIA:

Gastrovascular cavity, as the name indicates, functions in both digestion and the transport of nutrients to all parts of an animal body. Organisms belonging to two major phyla, the Cnidaria and the Platyhelminthes, possess gastrovascular cavities. The radially symmetrical cnidarians have a sac-like body in two distinct layers, with a jellylike layer between. Extracellular digestion takes place within the central cavity of the sac-like body. This cavity has only one opening to the outside and that is surrounded by tentacles in most cnidarians. The tentacles serve to capture prey.
 
lieke said:
uh.. i'm not a really good english reader, so could you please say this in some easier words
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It's about the stomach and the way a human, or animal body uses the food that we eat. A medical term.

Great to see you around too, i seem to have missed you recently! xx
 
Chakal said:
From WIKIPEDIA:

Gastrovascular cavity, as the name indicates, functions in both digestion and the transport of nutrients to all parts of an animal body. Organisms belonging to two major phyla, the Cnidaria and the Platyhelminthes, possess gastrovascular cavities. The radially symmetrical cnidarians have a sac-like body in two distinct layers, with a jellylike layer between. Extracellular digestion takes place within the central cavity of the sac-like body. This cavity has only one opening to the outside and that is surrounded by tentacles in most cnidarians. The tentacles serve to capture prey.
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:eek: oh NASTY!!!! gross...
 
rosymole said:
It's about the stomach and the way a human, or animal body uses the food that we eat. A medical term.

Great to see you around too, i seem to have missed you recently! xx
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thanks, i was really busy lately but i'm back! :)
 
Actually Edmund was right....

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A little something from the shadows of my imagination.... :D
 
How come Susan used the word Gastrovacular anyway??? was Peter learning about medicine and the human body that day or what??? confused... can anyone explain why the Narnia producers and directors picked that specific word? to use? in the movie?
 
I can tell you as a veteran of jaw-breaker vocabulary words, they wanted something that sounded technical and was long but that the audience would not know and the kids could learn to pronounce. It also had to be a word known in 1942 and a lot of polymers and biochemicals (Like DNA) were not yet discovered. Gastrovascular fits all three criteria.
 
Sharlene said:
How come Susan used the word Gastrovacular anyway??? was Peter learning about medicine and the human body that day or what??? confused... can anyone explain why the Narnia producers and directors picked that specific word? to use? in the movie?
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I think the only game they could think of for a rainy day was for Susan to read a word in the dictionary and Peter to try to guess the meaning. They weren't really studying, just trying to kill some time while it was raining.

I really thought it was one of the funniest moments when Ed moaned, "Is it Latin for the most boring game in the world?!" cuz that is a whiny thing one of my own brothers would have said at that age ...

LOL Chakal -- Susan P. should be the host! :p
 
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