Definition of Anlage

1. Noun. An organ in its earliest stage of development; the foundation for subsequent development.

Exact synonyms: Primordium
Generic synonyms: Organ

Definition of Anlage

1. the initial cell structure from which an embryonic organ develops [n -GEN or -GES]

Medical Definition of Anlage

1. Synonym: primordium. 2. In psychoanalysis, genetic predisposition to a given trait or personality characteristic. Origin: Ger. Plan, outline (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anlage

ankylosed tooth
ankyloses
ankylosing
ankylosing hyperostosis
ankylosing spondylitis
ankylosis
ankylostomiases
ankylostomiasis
ankylotic
ankyrin
ankyrin repeat
ankyrins
ankyroid
anlace
anlaces
anlage (current term)
anlagen
anlages
anlas
anlases
anlaut
ann
anna
annabergite
annal
annalise
annalised
annalises
annalist
annalistic

Literary usage of Anlage

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

1. Austria: Including Hungary, Transylvania, Dalmatia, and Bosnia. Handbook for by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1896)
"On the left bank are the Untere and Obere Sommer- anlage, or 'Maria-Valerie-Garten', where the band plays in the evening in spring and autumn. ..."

2. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1897)
"is not sufficient to prove that the ectoderm is noi giving off cells into the body space at tlie time when the anlage is being formed ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
"390, appeared a communication from Arthur Willey entitled ' What is anlage ? ' He well remarks : "To be obliged, on every occasion, to write 1 anlage ' in ..."

4. A Laboratory Manual and Text-book of Embryology by Charles William Prentiss (1915)
"The uterine portion of the anlage degenerates with the paired portions of the ... as applied to the remains of the utero vaginal anlage is a misnomer, ..."

5. A Laboratory Text-book of Embryology by Charles Sedgwick Minot (1903)
"Ki, Enlarged blind end of the ureter, the anlage of the renal pelvis. / •' •, anlage of the larynx, consisting chiefly of an epithelial plate. Li, Liver. ..."

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