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Definition of Blastomere
1. Noun. Any cell resulting from cleavage of a fertilized egg.
Definition of Blastomere
1. n. One of the segments first formed by the division of the ovum.
Definition of Blastomere
1. Noun. (biology) Any cell that results from division of a fertilized egg. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Blastomere
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Blastomere
1. One of the cells produced as the result of cell division, cleavage, in the fertilized egg. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blastomere
Literary usage of Blastomere
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chimæroid Fishes and Their Development by Bashford Dean (1906)
"In the first of these, i, a large blastomere has broken up into three smaller
cells, in the largest of which the nucleus has subdivided ..."
2. The Medical Times and Gazette (1875)
"1301. layer accumulates, and is divided off as a blastomere of much smaller size
than that from which it arises. By repeated division, each of these gives ..."
3. The Journal of General Physiology by Society of General Physiologists, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1920)
"blastomere a, being the earliest formed, segmented ahead of its fellows (Fig.
... It is significant that blastomere 6 is larger than 7 as evidently the ..."
4. The Cell in Development and Inheritance by Edmund Beecher Wilson (1897)
"If, after destruction of one blastomere, the other be allowed to remain in its
... If, on the other hand, the blastomere be inverted, it may give rise ..."
5. The Development of the Frog's Egg: An Introduction to Experimental Embryology by Thomas Hunt Morgan (1897)
"It has been shown by Roux that when a blastomere has been pierced by a cold
needle, there is a small outflow of yolk, and the injured blastomere continues ..."
6. Studies from the Department of Anatomy by Dept. of Anatomy, Cornell University, Medical College (1910)
"This production of a half embryo from one blastomere is not due to the inability
of the egg to produce more than one embryo, ..."
7. Bryn Mawr College Monographs by Bryn Mawr College (1906)
"This type of embryo may arise in one of two ways, either as the result of a
rearrangement of the contents of the uninjured blastomere after the operation, ..."
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