epiblast
noun
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.
epiblastic
-
a word derived from
epiblast.
Example Sentences
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Now the lens is an epiblastic structure, and the iris is mesoblastic.
From Science and Morals and Other Essays by Sir Bertram Coghill Alan Windle
Gastrula: that embryonic stage resembling a sac, with an outer layer of epiblastic cells and an inner layer of hypoblastic cells.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
An epiblastic tucking-in at st., the stomodaeum pre-figures the mouth; pr., the proctodaeum, is a similar posterior invagination which will become the anus.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
