Definition of Metanephroi

1. Noun. (plural of metanephros) ¹

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Definition of Metanephroi

1. metanephros [n] - See also: metanephros

Lexicographical Neighbors of Metanephroi

metanauplii
metanauplius
metanavigation
metanephric
metanephric blastema
metanephric bud
metanephric cap
metanephric diverticulum
metanephric duct
metanephric tubule
metanephridium
metanephrine
metanephritic
metanephrogenic
metanephrogenic tissue
metanephroi (current term)
metanephros
metanephroses
metanetwork
metanetworks
metaneutrophil
metanil yellow
metanoete
metanoia
metanoias
metanopirone
metanota
metanotum
metantimonate
metantimonates

Literary usage of Metanephroi

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Laboratory manual and text-book of embryology by Charles William Prentiss (1922)
"The metanephroi are seen as dorsal evaginations from the mesonephric (Wolffian) ducts just before their entrance into the cloaca. ..."

2. The Early Embryology of the Chick by Bradley Merrill Patten (1920)
"These outgrowths form the ducts of the metanephroi. . They grow cephalo-laterad and ... With the establishment of the metanephroi or permanent kidneys the ..."

3. Outlines of Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by John Sterling Kingsley (1917)
"... D, amniote, appearance of metanephroi (true kidneys) with obsolescence of ... jugular; It, left innominate; mn, mIn, meso-and metanephroi; om, ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1908)
"... therefore probably also the metanephroi, of the Vertebrates, which consist to great extent of peritoneal funnels. And Boveri has argued that the gonads ..."

5. Hand-book of physiology by William Dobinson Halliburton, William Senhouse Kirkes (1900)
"... this is called the metanephroi, and it forms the hind kidney, which represents the true kidney of the higher vertebrates ; the metanephric duct becomes ..."

6. A Manual of Zoology by Richard Hertwig (1912)
"Whether the pronephros is an individual excretory organ, or a part of the same system as the meso- and metanephroi is disputed. ..."

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