segmentation cavity
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of segmentation cavity
First recorded in 1885–90
Example Sentences
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The cavity of the blastosphere, or segmentation cavity.
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In the course of a series of divisions the eight cells come to form a hollow sphere—the blastosphere—enclosing a cavity known as the cleavage or segmentation cavity.
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The central part of the blastosphere is called the segmentation cavity or blastocoel.
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The sharp angle by which the cells met at the centre has become rounded off, and has left a little space, the segmentation cavity, filled with fluid in the middle of the embryo.
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In the gastrula stage, the segmentation cavity in which the mesoblast is formed lies between the entoblast and ectoblast.
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