One set of muscles affect the size of the inhalent pores, causing them to contract or expand, while another set are able to close the pores altogether, thus acting as a protection from the attack of an enemy.
It is not known exactly what the sponge lives upon, but if upon other animals they must be necessarily very small, owing to the size of its inhalent pores.
The nature of the inhalent apertures in the external membrane has been much discussed as regards the Demospongiae, but the truth seems to be that their structure differs considerably even in closely allied species.
The inhalent pores surrounded externally by unmodified cells of the external membrane.
These channels as a rule persist in the adult organism and result from the fact that the inhalent apertures are situated at the periphery, being absent from both the proximal and the distal ends of the bud.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inhalent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
