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entoderm

American  
[en-tuh-durm] / ˈɛn təˌdɜrm /

noun

Embryology.
  1. endoderm.


entoderm British  
/ ˈɛntəʊˌdɜːm /

noun

  1. embryol another name for endoderm

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of entoderm

First recorded in 1875–80; ento- + -derm

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This has been produced by the rapid growth and reproduction of certain cells of the entoderm which have migrated, so to speak, into this new position.

From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by Tyler, John Mason

This axial rod, which is the first foundation of the later vertebral column in all the vertebrates, and is the only representative of it in the Amphioxus, originates from the entoderm.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August

Between the ectoderm and entoderm of the gastrula, in the space occupied by the supporting membrane of hydra, a new layer of cells, the mesoderm, appears.

From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by Tyler, John Mason

The entoderm, which has the appearance of being thickened because of the fact that the notochord has not yet completely separated from it, is continuous, through the blastopore, with the ectoderm.

From Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator by Reese, C. M.

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