schizeckenosy

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schizeckenosy (noun; Greek schizien, to split; eckenos, empty out): (Arthropoda: Chelicerata) In Acari, a system of waste elimination with blindly ending midgut by a lobe from the ventriculus breaking free and being expelled though a split in the posterodorsal cuticle.