vitelline
Americanadjective
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of or relating to the egg yolk.
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having a yellow color resembling that of an egg yolk.
adjective
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of or relating to the yolk of an egg
the vitelline gland
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having the yellow colour of an egg yolk
Etymology
Origin of vitelline
First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English word from Medieval Latin word vitellīnus. See vitellus, -ine 1
Example Sentences
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They are called vitelline, or, frequently, omphalo-mesenteric, veins.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
The yelk-sac is reduced to a small pear-shaped umbilical vesicle; its thin pedicle, the long vitelline duct, is enclosed in the umbilical cord.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
While this division is in process, the divided parts arrange themselves orderly about the inner surface of the vitelline or yolk membrane, with the minute microscopic spaces between filled with a transparent fluid.
From What a Young Husband Ought to Know by Sylvanus Stall
On the floor of the open belly lie, between the protovertebrae, the primitive aortas, from which five pairs of vitelline arteries are given off.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
Other phosphoglobulins are vitelline, found in the yolk of hens' eggs, and ichthulin, found in the eggs of fish.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
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