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Certain mesodermic cells, resembling those of the connective tissue, collect masses of haemoglobin, and from these elaborate red blood corpuscles which thus come to lie in the fluid part of the cell.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various

On the other hand, all the membranous, cartilaginous, and osseous coverings of the labyrinth are formed from the mesodermic head-plates.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August

This papilla consists of vascular dermal, i.e. mesodermic tissue, and if the feather is pulled out during growth bleeding occurs.

From Hormones and Heredity by Cunningham, J. T.

Now, the original lens was built out of the ectoderm, while the iris is of mesodermic origin.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur

The false bladder of the fishes is a mesodermic product of the nephroducts; the true bladder of the Dipneusts, Amphibia, and Amniotes is an entodermic blind sac of the rectum.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August