blastoderm
/ˈblastə(ʊ)dəːm
/noun Embryology
A blastula having the form of a disc of cells on top of the yolk.When the membranes surrounding the peripheral nuclei fuse to form the 6000 cells of the cellular blastoderm, they enclose 175-225 polyploid yolk nuclei within a large syncytial yolk cell....
- As a result, the blastodisc on the yolk becomes a blastoderm.
- When the egg is laid, the blastoderm contains several hundred cells.
- grant-in-aid
- grant-maintained
- grantor
- grantsman
- grantsmanship
- Grant, Ulysses S.
- gran turismo
- granular
- granularity
- granulate
- granulation
- granulation tissue
- granulator
- granule
- granulite
- granulitic
- granulocyte
- granulocytic
- granuloma
- granulomatous
- granulometric
- granulose
- granum
- Granville-Barker, Harley
- grape