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Embryonic stage
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blastula
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context embryology English) An early form in the development of an embryo, consisting of a spherical layer of cells filled with fluid; a blastosphere.
Wikipedia
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The blastula (from Greek βλαστός (blastos), meaning " sprout ") is a hollow sphere of cells , referred to as blastomeres , surrounding an inner fluid-filled cavity called the blastocoele formed during an early stage of embryonic development in animals . ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
embryonic state, 1875, Modern Latin, from Greek blastos "sprout, germ" + diminutive ending -ula .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. 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 [syn: blastodermic ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blastula \Blas"tu*la\, n. [NL., dim. of Gr. blasto`s a sprout.] (Biol.) That stage in the development of the ovum in which the outer cells of the morula become more defined and form the blastoderm.
Usage examples of blastula.
So it should be quite easy to take an unfertilized turkey egg, inject a dodo blastula, and, with luck, hatch a perfectly viable dodo chick.
It is only during gastrulation, after the egg has divided and redivided many times and shaped itself into a hollow ball of cells called a blastula, that the development of organs, limbs and other body parts begins.
There are many more that can be detected in the early check, before the blastula is implanted in the replicator bed and starts forming its placenta.
Around a cluster of stars called the Blastula Luz, I prepared my long passage to the Rosette Nebula in the Orion Arm.
I penetrated the Blastula and segued to the thickspace at its nearly hollow center.
It provided automated storage and retrieval of the hundreds of bar-coded DNA samples, embryos, and blastulas that the geneticists had to keep track of.
All Kenneth had to do was retrieve the blastulas that Tomila had earmarked for incineration, before the lab attendant did.
The blastulas were dubbed the 1-1-2041s, and everything about their lives became the subject of intense public scrutiny and fascination and self-righteous horror.
Apparently, one of the master Scientists was trying to cark Scutari blastulas into a shape more to his liking.
It was an experiment of the Scientists to interfere with Scutari gastrulation, coaxing the blastulas that they had somehow acquired to develop more like sea urchins or Darghinni or even human beings.
The blastulas were dubbed the 1-1-2041s, and everything about their lives became the subject of intense public scrutiny and fascination and self-righteous horror.
This part of Sunulok had grown an array of geometrically staggered coral blastulas where dozens of smaller villips lay quiescent.
Fluids leaked from the dovin basal blastulas, trailing behind like frozen streamers.
They made a blastula inside my skull, dividing again and again, with their animal pole at my left ear and their vegetal pole at my right.
The ship had contracted, necks reduced in length, tail and nose become blunt nubbins, grooves indenting the circumference of the second homeball like the cell divisions of a blastula.