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Definition of Meroblastic
1. a. Consisting only in part of germinal matter; characterized by partial segmentation only; as, meroblastic ova, in which a portion of the yolk only undergoes fission; meroblastic segmentation; -- opposed to holoblastic.
Definition of Meroblastic
1. Adjective. (context: of a fertilized egg) that undergoes only partial cleavage ¹
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Definition of Meroblastic
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Meroblastic
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Meroblastic
Literary usage of Meroblastic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cell; Outlines of General Anatomy and Physiology: Outlines of General by Oscar Hertwig, Henry Johnstone Campbell (1895)
"... from the mother organism, move about for a time in the sea-water as zoospores.
II. PARTIAL OR meroblastic SEGMENTATION. If we disregard the case of ..."
2. The Cell in Development and Inheritance by Edmund Beecher Wilson (1897)
"Partial or meroblastic cleavage in the squid Loligo. [WATASE.] Balfour's law
undoubtedly explains a large number of cases, but by no means all; ..."
3. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1891)
"I Winter meroblastic plenty. Moina rectirostris . ... Winter meroblastic plenty.
In Lep(odora and Daphnia, both the winter and summer eggs contain plenty of ..."
4. The Development of the Chick: An Introduction to Embryology by Frank Rattray Lillie (1908)
"Such ova are known as meroblastic. In these ova the cellular part of the ovum
forms a blastodisc (germinal disc) on the surface of the yolk. ..."
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