Etymology

endotheca

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Today it means: The tissue which partially fills the interior of the interseptal chambers of most madreporarian corals. It usually consists of a series of oblique transverse septa, one above another. Full definition →

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The story

From endo- + theca (“the calcareous wall of a corallite”).

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