arthropods and mollusks have a digestive organ called a hepatopancreas that functions as both a liver and a pancreas
hepato- comes from the ancient Greek word for liver 'hepar'
sos basically the crabs have a liver-pancreas
pancreas is a combination of the Greek words 'pan' meaning 'all' and 'kreas' meaning 'flesh' or 'meat'
if you go far back enough in the etymology of the word liver you get to the proto-germanic word for 'to be slimy or sticky'
and that's why isopods store heavy metals in their 'slimy all meat' pouch
2 comments:
Why were all the ancient greeks so full of themselves?? They had to make all these fancy smancy words when the English was already there! Like why are you coming up with new words to mean 'liver' when we already GOT 'liver'!! And then you take your new fancy words and smush em together to make fanciest words that now nobody even understands!! Crazy.
so true crab. everything beyond being a single cell organism in the primordial soup is extravagance and decadence of the highest degree
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