epiblast
[ep-uh-blast]
- the primordial outer layer of a young embryo before the segregation of the germ layers, capable of becoming the ectoderm and containing cells capable of becoming the mesoderm and endoderm.
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Ectoblast: the outer wall of a cell; the ectoderm or epiblast.
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The outer of these is the epiblast, the inner the mesoblast.
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The division of the epiblast into a nervous and epidermic stratum.
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The inner of the two is called the hypoblast, the outer the epiblast.
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The mesoblast is attached in the median line to the epiblast.
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epiblast
- embryol the outermost layer of an embryo, which becomes the ectoderm at gastrulationAlso called: ectoblast
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epiblast
(ĕp′ə-blăst′)- The outer layer of a blastula that gives rise to the ectoderm after gastrulation.
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