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What does preoral mean?

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Adjective
  1. (anatomy) Situated in front of, or anterior to, the mouth.
  2. (psychoanalysis) Prior to the oral stage, in Freudian psychoanalysis.
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To the right of this adoral zone is a single line of preoral cilia.
A scorpion exuvium may include the booklung lamellae, preoral tube, and other internal features and there may be little distortion of delicate hairs, bristles, and setae.
Chelicerates are characterized by a pair of chelate preoral appendages and a body divided into two tagmata, the prosoma and opisthosoma.
At the anterior end of the preoral lobe is a nervous thickening of the ectoderm called 226 the apical plate.
The cilia of the preoral and postoral bands are not clearly differentiated at this stage.

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