mesoblast
Americannoun
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the mesoderm.
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the primordial middle layer of a young embryo before the segregation of the germ layers, capable of becoming the mesoderm.
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Dorsal to this, in 6, comes a space lined by somatic mesoblast, and continuous with p.p., the pleuro-peritoneal cavity, or body cavity of the embryo.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
It is due to an arrest of development, whereby the closure of the primary medullary groove and the ingrowth of the mesoblast to form the spines and laminæ fail to take place.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
The micromeres give rise to the ectoderm; each of the sixteen macromeres, after budding off a small mesoblast cell, passes on as endoderm.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various
The optic cup, or its contained fluid, is one chemical compound; epithelium is another; mesoblast is a third.
From Science and Morals and Other Essays by Windle, Bertram Coghill Alan, Sir
Hertwig says that all the cells of the epiblast, hypoblast, mesoblast, and of the later derivatives of these primary layers, receive identical portions of germplasm by means of doubling nuclear divisions.
From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Hertwig, Oscar
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