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blastosphere
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun blastosphere has 1 sense
- blastosphere(n = noun.animal) blastula - early stage of an embryo produced by cleavage of an ovum; a liquid-filled sphere whose wall is composed of a single layer of cells; during this stage (about eight days after fertilization) implantation in the wall of the uterus occurs; Array is a kind of conceptus, embryo, fertilized egg
has parts: blastocele, blastocoel, blastocoele, cleavage cavity, segmentation cavity, trophoblast
has particulars: blastocyst, blastodermic vessicle
Derived form adjective blastospheric1
CIDE DICTIONARY
blastosphere, n. [Gr. blasto`s sprout + E. sphere.].
The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum.
"[See Illust. of Invagination .]"
[1913 Webster]
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