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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to the metanephron.

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Examples

  • Mt. and Mt. d., the metanephros and metanephric duct, become the functional kidney and ureter in both sexes.

    Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata 1906

  • Here we found in normal human fetal kidneys (8 to 38 weeks of gestation) that CD24 expression was upregulated and restricted to the early epithelial aggregates of the metanephric blastema and to the committed proliferating tubular epithelia of the S-shape bodies.

    Naturejobs - All Jobs Larissa Ivanova 2010

  • K, Souabni A, Merkel C, Chi X, et al. (2008) Gata3 acts downstream of β-catenin signaling to prevent ectopic metanephric kidney induction.

    PLoS Biology: New Articles Dimple Notani et al. 2010

  • (metanephric duct) being either undifferentiated from the mesonephric

    Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata 1906

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