blastosphere
Americannoun
noun
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another name for blastula
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another name for blastocyst
Etymology
Origin of blastosphere
Example Sentences
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There is no open invagination of an archenteron in the fowl, as in the frog--, the gastrula, like the blastosphere, stage is also masked.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
The blastosphere of the frog is like what the blastosphere of amphioxus would be, if the future hypoblast cells were enormously larger through their protoplasm being diluted with yolk.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
The cells of the lower half of the blastosphere are slightly larger than those of the upper half.
From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by Tyler, John Mason
The cavity of the blastosphere, or segmentation cavity.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
This is the blastosphere, shown diagrammatically in Figure 4, and of which an internal view, rather truer to the facts of the case as regards shape, is given as Figure 5.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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