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Meaning of ECTOMERE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Ec"to*mere\, n. [Ecto- + -mere.] (Biol.)
The more transparent cells, which finally become external, in
many segmenting ova, as those of mammals.
 
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 Definition: A blastomere (one of the cells formed during the first few divisions of the zygote) which takes part in forming the ectoderm (the outermost tissue layer of an embryo).
 

 

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