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Definition of Extraembryonic
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Extraembryonic
1. Outside the embryonic body; e.g., those membranes involved with the embryo's protection and nutrition which are discarded at birth without being incorporated in its body. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Extraembryonic
Literary usage of Extraembryonic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Allen Thomson, George Dancer Thane (1882)
"In the ova of the higher vertebrates the phenomena of development I. DEVELOPMENT OF
extraembryonic PARTS. Membranes of the Ovum in General. ..."
2. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1897)
"space between it and the chorion, the extraembryonic (compare with Fig. 26). ...
Around the stem of the vesicle the extraembryonic ..."
3. Contributions by Dept. of Anatomy, University of Minnesota Dept. of Anatomy, University of Minnesota (1922)
"The mesoderm of the human embryo appears to have a dual origin being formed
primarily from the extraembryonic mesoderm of the inner cell-mass and ..."
4. Outlines of Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by John Sterling Kingsley (1917)
"... of the amniotic cavity—the true amnion— there is a second cavity, a part of
the extraembryonic coelom, directly continuous with the coelom of the body. ..."
5. Outlines of Chordate Development by William Erskine Kellicott (1913)
"... but the vessels are still comparatively free from corpuscles. The pellucid
and opaque areas are further characterized by the presence of extraembryonic ..."
6. A Laboratory Manual and Text-book of Embryology by Charles William Prentiss (1915)
"... the right and left limbs of which are continued caudally into the paired
pleuro-peritoneal cavities; these extend out into the extraembryonic ..."
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