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
This is due to a folding of the blastodermic wall by what is called the "girder," a plug-shaped growth of Rauber's "roof-layer."
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
In this way each blastodermic cell becomes a ciliated cell.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
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
Between these two blastodermic membranes other minute tissues are formed, the office and end of which are not so fully understood, and the consideration of which would lead us into intricacies beyond our present purpose.
From What a Young Husband Ought to Know by Sylvanus Stall
