mesonephric

• a word derived from mesonephros.
  mesonephros

  noun

  one of the three embryonic excretory organs of vertebrates, becoming the functional kidney of fishes and amphibians and becoming part of the tubules or ductules in the reproductive systems of higher vertebrates.

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mesonephric

Gill-slits, notochord, relation of nervous system, mesonephric tubules, are thus common to Annelids and Vertebrates—what further proof could one desire of the close relationship of these groups?

From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

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