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2. ([[Mollusca]]: Gastropoda) The theory in ancestral gastropods that a 180-degree counterclockwise twisting occurred that caused the crossing of the pleural-visceral connectives in the nervous system to form a figure eight
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2. ([[Mollusca]]: [[Gastropoda]]) The theory in [[ancestral]] [[gastropods]] that a 180-degree counterclockwise twisting occurred that caused the crossing of the [[pleural]]-[[visceral]] connectives in the [[nervous system]] to form a figure eight
 
|see also=[[chiastoneury]], [[detorsion]].
 
|see also=[[chiastoneury]], [[detorsion]].
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Latest revision as of 23:42, 13 September 2013

torsion (noun; Latin torquere, to twist): 1. Spiral bending; twisting.

2. (Mollusca: Gastropoda) The theory in ancestral gastropods that a 180-degree counterclockwise twisting occurred that caused the crossing of the pleural-visceral connectives in the nervous system to form a figure eight

See also: chiastoneury, detorsion.