blastomere

American  

[blas-tuh-meer] / ˈblæs təˌmɪər /

noun

Embryology.

1. any cell produced during cleavage.

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blastomere British  

/ ˈblæstəʊˌmɪə /

noun

1. embryol any of the cells formed by cleavage of a fertilized egg

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blastomere Scientific  

/ blăs′tə-mîr′ /

1. Any of the cells resulting from the cleavage of a fertilized ovum. In the initial stage of development, the blastomeres adhere to each other in a mass called a morula.

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Other Word Forms

• blastomeric
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of blastomere

First recorded in 1875–80; blasto- + -mere

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Example Sentences

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blastomere

Each cell within the blastula is called a blastomere.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

In one embryo, editing occurred in all blastomeres, although one blastomere retained one copy of the wild-type allele.

From Nature ● Sep. 19, 2017

In another embryo, although four out of five blastomeres had been edited, one blastomere retained both copies of the wild-type allele.

From Nature ● Sep. 19, 2017

The presence even of a single mutant blastomere within a mosaic embryo would make detection by PGD problematic; therefore, molecular mechanisms responsible for mosaicism were investigated.

From Nature ● Aug. 1, 2017

In 1888 Roux of Breslau by puncturing one blastomere of a frog's egg in the two-cell stage killed the punctured blastomere without affecting the other.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley

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