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Mesoblast, mes′o-blast, n. the middle one of the three germinal layers of any metazoic embryo between the epiblast and the hypoblast: the mesoderm.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

Gas′trula, that embryonic form of metazoic animals which consists of a two-layered sac enclosing a central cavity and having an opening at one end:—pl.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

Monoblastic, mon-ō-blas′tik, adj. pertaining to that condition of the metazoic embryo in which a single germinal layer is alone represented.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

Different investigators found that animal tissue is also composed of cells; and between 1835 and 1839 Schwann and Schleiden formulated the law that every metazoic organism is made of cells, and starts from a cell.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin

The gut is the oldest of all the organs of the metazoic body, and it leads us back to the earliest age of the formation of organs—to the first section of the Laurentian period.

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