mesoblast
Americannoun
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the mesoderm.
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the primordial middle layer of a young embryo before the segregation of the germ layers, capable of becoming the mesoderm.
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They increase with great rapidity, the inner sac or mesoblast becoming sometimes so crowded with them, that its shape is affected by the protrusion of their angles.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various
We have further to note that in the embryos of Metazoa at all advanced in organization, there arises between these two layers a third—the mesoblast.
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Herbert Spencer
Dorsal to this, in 6, comes a space lined by somatic mesoblast, and continuous with p.p., the pleuro-peritoneal cavity, or body cavity of the embryo.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Ventrad and laterad to the glottis a crescentic condensation of mesoblast represents the beginning of the laryngeal cartilages, la.
From Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator by C. M. Reese
Epiblast is indicated by a line of dashes, mesoblast by dots, and hypoblast, dark or black.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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