Pecten
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Pecten is Latin for comb or rake.[1] Its genitive form is pectinis, which yields the root pectin-.[citation needed]
Pecten may refer to:
- Pecten (biology), any comb like structure in animals
- Pecten oculi, a structure in the bird retina which contains most of the vasculature
- Various pectineal lines in anatomy, especially the pectineal line (pubis)
- Pecten (bivalve), a genus of scallops which includes the Great or King Scallop, Pecten maximus
- Pectinidae, a family of bivalve mollusks
- Pectinoidea, a superfamily of bivalve mollusks which includes Pectinidae
- Pectineus muscle, a thigh muscle
- A subsidiary of Shell Oil Company
[edit] See also
- Pectin, from an unrelated Greek root
- Pectinivalva, a moth genus
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