Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the mesoblast: as, a mesoblastic cell; the mesoblastic layer.
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- adjective (Biol.) Relating to the mesoblast.
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- adjective biology of, relating to, or resembling the
mesoblast
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- adjective relating to or derived from the mesoderm
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Examples
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Surrounding the epithelium of the lung rudiments is a thin layer of quite dense mesoblastic tissue.
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator C. M. [Illustrator] Reese
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A slightly later stage is shown in figure 2, a dorsal view of an embryo with five pairs of mesoblastic somites.
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator C. M. [Illustrator] Reese
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The medullary folds and notochord are evident at this stage, but no mesoblastic somites are to be seen.
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator C. M. [Illustrator] Reese
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In the direct development Bateson showed that the three divisions of the coelom arise as pouches constricted off from the archenteron or primitive gut, thus resembling the development of the mesoblastic somites of _Amphioxus_.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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Its wall, figure 7H, is very thin and exhibits a dense layer of mesoblastic tissue, in which circular and longitudinal muscle layers are beginning to differentiate.
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator C. M. [Illustrator] Reese
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A dorsal view of an embryo with five pairs of mesoblastic somites.
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator C. M. [Illustrator] Reese
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The remainder of the eye-structures are of mesoblastic origin, except the superficial epithelium of the cornea.
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In such a primitive type as amphioxus these mesoblastic - somites - [masses] contain a cavity, destined to be the future body cavity, from the first.
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The mesoblast appears as solid mesoblastic somites.
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But once or twice lately there had been signs that a third interest was creeping into his life, and he had found his attention wandering from the fate of the mesoblastic somites or the probable meaning of the blastopore, to the thought of the girl with the brown eyes who sat at the table before him.
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