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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The mass of the body is thus evidently made of mesoblast.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Each bronchus, like the trachea, is lined with an epithelium of three or four layers of cells; but the epithelium is surrounded by a thin layer of much condensed mesoblast.
From Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator by C. M. Reese
The epithelium of the duodenum consists of four or five layers of compactly arranged cells, near the center of an oval mass of fairly dense mesoblast.
From Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator by C. M. Reese
In all the higher animals a layer of cells makes its appearance between the hypoblast and the epiblast, and is termed the mesoblast.
From Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 by Thomas Henry Huxley
The optic cup, or its contained fluid, is one chemical compound; epithelium is another; mesoblast is a third.
From Science and Morals and Other Essays by Sir Bertram Coghill Alan Windle
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