stigma
- noun
- /ˈstɪɡmə/
- Specialized
:
espiráculo
- Each stigma in the tracheal system of the spider aids in the efficient exchange of gases.
Examples
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If you look, they have cruciform stigmas.
Fiction book (1990) -
For a man of power, it was perhaps worse because others were always scheming to diminish or preempt that power, and there was a stigma to the left side that could too readily provide them an opening.
Fiction book (1994) -
What kinds of stigma and positive and negative social images will women project if they perform the behaviors, and how do the behaviors fit with their own images of themselves? And (5) how do patients feel emotionally and affectively when they perform the indicated behaviors?
Academic text (2017) -
Aria loved the language of science: thorax, abdomen, mandible, proboscis; style, stigma, ovary...
Fiction book (1997) -
The water lily floats across the fluidly female surface and reproduces asexually with the help of insects carrying seed from the anther to the stigma.
Academic text (2017) -
In insects, the stigma are the small openings in their exoskeleton that allow air to enter their respiratory system.
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The stigma on the thorax of the grasshopper enables it to breathe during flight.
Compounds
Negative ideas that lead people to treat those with mental health problems unfairly
Surface Forms
Etymology
Stigma comes from a Greek word stigma that meant 'a mark' or 'a small hole' made by a sharp point. So scientists use stigma for the tiny breathing opening on an insect — a small marked hole where air enters.
