germ layer


noun
  1. one of the three primary embryonic cell layers.

Origin of germ layer

1
First recorded in 1875–80

Words Nearby germ layer

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How to use germ layer in a sentence

  • If the germ-layer theory is no longer credited, upon what fundamental laws is embryology based?

    The Origin of Vertebrates | Walter Holbrook Gaskell
  • In this manner the foundations of the germ-layer theory were established in their modern form.

  • In his germ-layer theory Remak's standpoint is histological 212rather than morphological.

    Form and Function | E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
  • He used the germ-layer theory to prove the essential unity of type of all the Triploblastica.

    Form and Function | E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
  • He it was who introduced the terms "Keimhaut" (blastoderm) and "Keimblatt" (germ-layer).

    Form and Function | E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

British Dictionary definitions for germ layer

germ layer

noun
  1. embryol any of the three layers of cells formed during gastrulation: See ectoderm, mesoderm, endoderm

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Scientific definitions for germ layer

germ layer

  1. Any of three cellular layers, the ectoderm, endoderm, or mesoderm, into which most animal embryos differentiate in the gastrula stage and from which the organs and tissues of the body develop through further differentiation.

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