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The liver and other digestive glands are first formed, like the lungs, as hollow outgrowths, and their lining is therefore hypoblastic.

From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

The hypoblastic notochord is early embraced by a mesoblastic sheath derived from the protovertebrae.

From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

These malformations are associated chiefly with imperfect development of the visceral or branchial arches and clefts, or of the hypoblastic diverticula from which the thyreoid and thymus glands are formed.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

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 Smith, John. B.