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Definition of Blastema

1. Noun. A mass of undifferentiated cells from which an organ or body part develops.

Definition of Blastema

1. n. The structureless, protoplasmic tissue of the embryo; the primitive basis of an organ yet unformed, from which it grows.

Definition of Blastema

1. Noun. (physiology) A clump of undifferentiated cells or blasts, from which an organ or body part will develop, either during the normal growth of an embryo or in the regeneration of a lost body part. ¹

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Definition of Blastema

1. a region of embryonic cells [n -MAS or -MATA]

Medical Definition of Blastema

1. A group of cells in an organism that will develop into a new individual by asexual reproduction or into an organised structure during regeneration. (17 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blastema

Literary usage of Blastema

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

1. Lectures on surgical pathology: Delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons by James Paget, William Turner, Royal College of Surgeons of England (1865)
"The nuclei undergo comparatively little change, while the blastema in which ... The blastema may become at length perfect connective tissue ; a tissue not ..."

2. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Scienceedited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1880)
"Showing developing ureter and kidney blastema. FIG. 20. —Section just anterior to ureter through the anterior end of the kidney blastema. FIG. 21. ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1858)
"In ita ultimate development, undoubtedly, the formation of nuclei from the blastema would have reached a point at which the nuclear formation would be the ..."

4. The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1893)
"Nor will it have any more to say to the Occult teachings, which are to some extent approached by Naudin. For if we but see in his "Primordial blastema" the ..."

5. The London Medical Gazette (1849)
"layer of blastema. It is for this reason that the most inferior part of a ... component of the epidermic blastema during the production ot epidermic cells, ..."

6. Charleston Medical Journal and Review (1848)
"Of blastema and its Metamorphoses, particularly Fibrin. The blastema of pathological new formations originates in the general nutritive fluid, the plasma of ..."

7. A Treatise on tuberculosis: The Constitutional Origin of Consumption and by Henry Ancell (1852)
"THE blastema IN THE TUBERCULOUS PREDISPOSITION. In the physiological state, the liquor sanguinis, during its passage through the different tissues, ..."

8. Clinical lectures on the principles and practice of medicine by John Hughes Bennett (1866)
"All morbid growths may easily be shown to originate either in a molecular blastema, or in pre-existing cells. The coagulated exudation infiltrated into the ..."

9. Lectures on surgical pathology: Delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons by James Paget, William Turner, Royal College of Surgeons of England (1865)
"The nuclei undergo comparatively little change, while the blastema in which ... The blastema may become at length perfect connective tissue ; a tissue not ..."

10. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Scienceedited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1880)
"Showing developing ureter and kidney blastema. FIG. 20. —Section just anterior to ureter through the anterior end of the kidney blastema. FIG. 21. ..."

11. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1858)
"In ita ultimate development, undoubtedly, the formation of nuclei from the blastema would have reached a point at which the nuclear formation would be the ..."

12. The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1893)
"Nor will it have any more to say to the Occult teachings, which are to some extent approached by Naudin. For if we but see in his "Primordial blastema" the ..."

13. The London Medical Gazette (1849)
"layer of blastema. It is for this reason that the most inferior part of a ... component of the epidermic blastema during the production ot epidermic cells, ..."

14. Charleston Medical Journal and Review (1848)
"Of blastema and its Metamorphoses, particularly Fibrin. The blastema of pathological new formations originates in the general nutritive fluid, the plasma of ..."

15. A Treatise on tuberculosis: The Constitutional Origin of Consumption and by Henry Ancell (1852)
"THE blastema IN THE TUBERCULOUS PREDISPOSITION. In the physiological state, the liquor sanguinis, during its passage through the different tissues, ..."

16. Clinical lectures on the principles and practice of medicine by John Hughes Bennett (1866)
"All morbid growths may easily be shown to originate either in a molecular blastema, or in pre-existing cells. The coagulated exudation infiltrated into the ..."

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