Scutum
Scutum means:
- Scutum (protective weapon) , type of shield used by the Roman legionaries
- Shield (constellation) , Latin name
- in humans the lower edge of the attic spur , see middle ear
- various forms of skin flake formation in vertebrates, see horn scales
- in some arthropods a sclerite plate of their exoskeleton :
- in insects, e.g. B. bugs and beetles, the pronotum
- in arachnids, e.g. B. ticks, the scutum (ticks)
- in crustaceans, e.g. B. barnacles a plate adjoining the tergum.
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