hemopoietic organs

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hemopoietic organs also hemocytopoietic organs or haemopoietic organs: (Arthropoda: Insecta) Discrete encapsulated organs, reported in Hemiptera, Coleoptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera and Hymenoptera, functioning in the formation of blood cells.