entoderm
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The inner layer we call the entoderm, the outer the ectoderm; and the "primitive mouth" is known as the blastopore.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
But in the monotremes the formation of the cenogenetic entoderm does not precede the invagination; hence in this case the construction of the germinal layers is less modified than in the other amniota.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
The authors who regard this embryonic form as the primary gastrula of the placental conceive the outer layer as the ectoderm and the inner as the entoderm.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
The reason of its peculiar narrowness here is that it is, for the most part, full of yelk-cells of the entoderm.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
The foregut is here more inclosed, and the notochord, nt, having separated from the entoderm, en, is seen as a distinct layer of cells extending from the foregut to the blastopore.
From Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator by C. M. Reese
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