blastoderm
noun
the primitive layer of cells that results from the segmentation of the ovum.
blastodermic
-
a word derived from
blastoderm.
Example Sentences
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The source of cancer has not been determined finally, whether cellular, blastodermic or what.
From Time Magazine Archive
The section below is a small portion of the blastodermic area. b.d., blastoderm. y., the undivided yolk. s.c., the segmentation between the blastoderm and yolk.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
The embryonic area is the only part of the ovum which has to do with the subsequent development of the embryo; the other parts of the blastodermic vesicle become subservient as nutritive or supporting structures.
From Embryology The Beginnings of Life by Gerald R. Leighton
In this way each blastodermic cell becomes a ciliated cell.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
Fifty years had passed, and Wolff, poor and persecuted, had died at Petrograd, an exile from his native land, when Pander and Ernest von Baer grappled anew with the theory of "blastodermic foliation."
From Spontaneous Activity in Education by Maria Montessori
