endoblast

American

[en-duh-blast] / ˈɛn dəˌblæst /

noun

Embryology.

endoderm.
hypoblast.

endoblast British

/ ˈɛndəʊˌblæst /

noun

embryol a less common name for endoderm
another name for hypoblast

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Derived Forms

endoblastic

adjective

Etymology

Origin of endoblast

First recorded in 1890–95; endo- + -blast

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The former is often also called the ectoblast, or epiblast, and the latter the endoblast, or hypoblast.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August

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