mesenchyme
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Origin of mesenchyme
1885–90; variant of mesenchyma < New Latin < Greek mesénchyma, equivalent to mes- mes- + énchyma infusion
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This ridge stimulates the underlying mesenchyme to rapidly proliferate, producing the outgrowth of the developing limb.
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The bones of the brain case arise via intramembranous ossification in which embryonic mesenchyme tissue converts directly into bone.
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In the limbs, mesenchyme accumulations within the growing limb bud will become a hyaline cartilage model for each of the limb bones.
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In contrast, the cranial base and facial bones are produced by the process of endochondral ossification, in which mesenchyme tissue initially produces a hyaline cartilage model of the future bone.
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Figures of early stages in vertebral development by the authors mentioned show that the basidorsals chondrify first, as neural arches, while a separate mass of mesenchyme lies externally and ventrally from these.
From The Ancestry of Modern Amphibia: A Review of the Evidence by Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth) Eaton
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