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vegetal pole

noun Embryology.

the relatively inactive part of an ovum opposite the animal pole, containing much yolk and little cytoplasm.

Compare animal pole.

Origin of vegetal pole

First recorded in 1895–1900

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vegetal pole in Medicine

vegetal pole

n.

The part of a telolecithal egg in which the bulk of the yolk is situated.vitelline pole

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