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mesoblastic

American  
[mez-uh-blast-ik, mee-zuh-, mes-uh-, mee-suh-] / ˌmɛz əˈblæst ɪk, ˌmi zə-, ˌmɛs ə-, ˌmi sə- /

adjective

  1. Embryology. relating to, developing from, or consisting of mesoblast.


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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

Surrounding the epithelium of the lung rudiments is a thin layer of quite dense mesoblastic tissue.

From Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator by C. M. Reese

The medullary folds and notochord are evident at this stage, but no mesoblastic somites are to be seen.

From Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator by C. M. Reese

We find solid mesoblastic somites, we find primitive streak, allantois and amnion, features we have just been explaining as the consequence of an excess of yolk in the egg.

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

This malformation is believed to be due to an irregularity in development, whereby a portion of the primary cerebral vesicle remains outside the mesoblastic layer of the embryo.

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

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