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What does cercal mean?

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Adjective
  1. (zoology) Of or pertaining to the tail.
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Furthermore, important differentiating characters are located on the cercal part of the epandrial complex as well as the hypandrium, surstylus, postgonite and phallus.
Although the cercal organ is reported to be extremely sensitive, precise measurements remain to be carried out.
The cercal organ, which is found at the posterior end of the abdomen in such insects as cockroaches and crickets, consists of a thick brush of several hundred fine hairs.
Miller and his colleagues have turned their attention to the cercal sensory system of the cricket.
Lilliput, with its ads for toothpaste and breakfast cercal, was as culturally and politically unpretentious as an intelligent magazine can be.
Four structures found in insects have been considered as possibly serving an auditory function: hair sensilla, antennae, cercal organs, and tympanal organs.

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