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View synonyms for delamination

delamination

[ dee-lam-uh-ney-shuhn ]

noun

  1. a splitting apart into layers.
  2. Embryology. the separation of a primordial cell layer into two layers by a process of cell migration.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of delamination1

First recorded in 1875–80; de- + lamination
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Example Sentences

In it cleavage gives rise to a solid mass, which divides by delamination into two layers, the ectoderm and endoderm.

It arises, however, by delamination from the ectoderm, the tube being a secondary acquisition.

The two layers are as before the epiblast and hypoblast, and the process by which they originate is known as delamination.

Delamination is constant (with the doubtful exception of some Tubularid) amongst the Hydromedus and Siphonophora.

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