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View synonyms for delamination
delamination
[ dee-lam-uh-ney-shuhn ]
noun
- a splitting apart into layers.
- Embryology. the separation of a primordial cell layer into two layers by a process of cell migration.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of delamination1
First recorded in 1875–80; de- + lamination
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Example Sentences
In it cleavage gives rise to a solid mass, which divides by delamination into two layers, the ectoderm and endoderm.
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It arises, however, by delamination from the ectoderm, the tube being a secondary acquisition.
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The two layers are as before the epiblast and hypoblast, and the process by which they originate is known as delamination.
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Delamination is constant (with the doubtful exception of some Tubularid) amongst the Hydromedus and Siphonophora.
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