gastrulation
Americannoun
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the formation of a gastrula.
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any process, as invagination, by which a blastula or other form of embryo is converted into a gastrula.
noun
Etymology
Origin of gastrulation
First recorded in 1875–80; gastrulate + -ion
Example Sentences
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But studying human gastrulation has proven both technologically difficult and ethically complicated, and thus current approaches have had limited success in expanding our understanding of early human development.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 23, 2024
One of those layers, the mesoderm, forms during gastrulation and gives rise to muscles, bones, and the circulatory system.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 23, 2024
"The formation of these centralized Golgi ribbons occurs just before gastrulation, which is the developmental stage at which the embryos establish the fate of different tissues and the body plan of the animal," says Ferraro.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 29, 2024
The team then identified two parameters -- one related to the initial distribution of cells in an embryo and the other related to cell behavior -- to tweak during gastrulation.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 15, 2023
When the blastula is fully formed, we have again in this case the important folding or invagination that determines gastrulation.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August
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