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CIDE DICTIONARY

endotheca, n. [NL., from Gr. 'e`ndon within + qh`kh a case, box, fr. to place.].

The tissue which partially fills the interior of the interseptal chambers of most madreporarian corals. It usually consists of a series of oblique tranverse septa, one above another. [1913 Webster]

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