Insemination vs Haematodocha - What's the difference?
insemination | haematodocha |
A sowing of seed; the act of inseminating.
The act of impregnating (making pregnant) someone or thing.
(zoology) An elastic sac of tissue within the palp of male arachnids, which fills with blood during insemination.
*1996 , Michael J Roberts, Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe , Collins 1996, p. 22:
*:The elastic haematodochae are then distended hydraulically, pushing out and rotating the sclerites of the palpal organs, some of which lock it in position.