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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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
We naturally assume, from what we have learnt, that the next stages will be the formation of a hollow blastosphere, invagination, a gastrula forming mesoblast by hollow outgrowths from the archenteron, and so on.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
If we compare this with the typical blastosphere of the lower type, we see that it is, as it were, flattened out on the yolk.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
The conditions for the origin of the blastosphere come into existence only by the process of segmentation, and it is only by its capacity to divide that the egg contains the conditions for blastosphere formation.
From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Hertwig, Oscar
Such a sphere is called a blastosphere, and may be regarded as a spherical mass of protoplasm, of which the central portion is so much vacuolated that it seems to consist entirely of fluid.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
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