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Prosome vs Prosoma - What's the difference?

prosome | prosoma |

As nouns the difference between prosome and prosoma

is that prosome is proteasome while prosoma is (zoology) the front segment of a body which is divided into two or more segments, especially the cephalothorax of an arachnid.

prosome

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • proteasome

    • prosoma

    English

    (wikipedia prosoma)

    Noun

    (prosomata)
  • (zoology) The front segment of a body which is divided into two or more segments, especially the cephalothorax of an arachnid.
  • * 1996 , Michael J. Roberts, Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe , Collins 1996, p. 12:
  • *:The front part, called the cephalothorax (or prosoma), is enclosed within a relatively hard and unyielding chitinous shell.

    • See also

    *opisthosoma