mesoblast

American  

[mez-uh-blast, mes-, mee-zuh-, -suh-] / ˈmɛz əˌblæst, ˈmɛs-, ˈmi zə-, -sə- /

noun

Embryology.

1. the mesoderm.

2. the primordial middle layer of a young embryo before the segregation of the germ layers, capable of becoming the mesoderm.

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mesoblast British  

/ ˈmɛsəʊˌblæst /

noun

1. another name for mesoderm

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Other Word Forms

• mesoblastic adjective

Etymology

Origin of mesoblast

First recorded in 1855–60; meso- + -blast

Example Sentences

The tadpole has, at first, a straight tubular heart, burrowed out in somatic mesoblast, and produced forward into a truncus arteriosus.

From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Ventrad and laterad to the glottis a crescentic condensation of mesoblast represents the beginning of the laryngeal cartilages, la.

From Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator by Reese, C. M.

What the mesoblast of the Death's Head Moth may be does not matter a rap in this story.

From The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Mesoderm:= mesoblast: gives rise to muscular and circulatory systems.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.

In all the higher animals a layer of cells makes its appearance between the hypoblast and the epiblast, and is termed the mesoblast.

From Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 by Huxley, Thomas Henry