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Definition of Morulae
1. morula [n] - See also: morula
Lexicographical Neighbors of Morulae
Literary usage of Morulae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1915)
"The behavior of the encysted aggregation morulae is quite like that of the growing
stolons of the ..."
2. Mammalian Embryo Genomics by Oecd, (Paris) Organisation for Economic Co-ope, OECD Staff (2003)
"Transcripts for the gap junction protein Connexin43 (Cx43) which is necessary
for the maintenance of compaction were detected in bovine morulae and ..."
3. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1906)
"'t attains its full size, and then passes out into the vesicles or reservoirs of
the semen, to lie among the sperm morulae and young spermatozoa. ..."
4. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1903)
"... with a distinct nucleus, lodged in one of the " sperm-morulae " floating in
the sperm-sac. As is well known, each sperm-morula of the earthworm gives ..."
5. A Manual of the Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals by Thomas Henry Huxley (1888)
"... it may become a question whether the tape-worms are anything but gigantic
morulae, so to speak, which have never passed through the gastrula stage. ..."
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