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blastema

[ bla-stee-muh ]

noun

, Embryology.
, plural blas·te·mas, blas·te·ma·ta [bla-, stee, -m, uh, -t, uh].
  1. an aggregation of cells in an early embryo, capable of differentiation into specialized tissue and organs.


blastema

/ blæˈstiːmə; blæˈstiːmɪk; -ˈstɛm- /

noun

  1. a mass of undifferentiated animal cells that will develop into an organ or tissue: present at the site of regeneration of a lost part
“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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Derived Forms

  • blastemic, adjective
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Other Words From

  • blas·temal blas·te·mat·ic [blas-t, uh, -, mat, -ik], blas·te·mic [bla-, stee, -mik, -, steem, -ik], adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of blastema1

1840–50; < New Latin < Greek blástēma ( blastē- verbid stem of blasteîn to sprout + -ma noun suffix denoting result of action)
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Word History and Origins

Origin of blastema1

C19: from New Latin, from Greek: offspring, from blastos bud
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Example Sentences

In animals, he says, the endogenous method is rare, and the customary origin is in an external blastema.

The first stage corresponds to the process of organization, the gelatine representing the blastema, and the drop the nucleus.

This mass of mesoblastic cells may be called the metanephric blastema.

He says the abnormal cell-forms present arise in some other way than by free cell-development out of an exuded blastema.

My first doubts of the blastema doctrine date from my researches on tubercle.

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