blastomere

American

[blas-tuh-meer] / ˈblæs təˌmɪər /

noun

Embryology.

any cell produced during cleavage.

blastomere British

/ ˈblæstəʊˌmɪə /

noun

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

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blastomere Scientific

/ blăs′tə-mîr′ /

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.

Other Word Forms

blastomeric

adjective

Etymology

Origin of blastomere

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

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blastomere

Each cell within the blastula is called a blastomere.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

At day 3 after fertilization, embryos were disaggregated and each individual blastomere was analysed as described above for S-phase-injected zygotes.

From Nature ● Aug. 1, 2017

All on-target indels in each blastomere were corroborated and results were identical to the Sanger sequencing results.

From Nature ● Aug. 1, 2017

Thus, this embryo, with every blastomere carrying repaired MYBPC3WT/WT, would be eligible for transfer.

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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