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Definition of Metanephros
1. n. The most posterior of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in many vertebrates.
Definition of Metanephros
1. Noun. (anatomy) The most posterior of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in many vertebrates. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Metanephros
1. [n -NEPHROI]
Medical Definition of Metanephros
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Metanephros
Literary usage of Metanephros
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"The metanephros and the Permanent Kidney.—The rudiments of the permanent kidneys
... Each kidney has a two-fold origin, part arising from the metanephros, ..."
2. An Introduction to the Study of the Comparative Anatomy of Animals: A by Gilbert Charles Bourne, Arthur Bolles Lee (1902)
"... system is distinguished as the metanephros, and it forms Fig. 56 BA Urogenital
system of the female. /,'. Urogenital system of the male ..."
3. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1885)
"The chief structural peculiarity of the pronephros is the absence from it of
Malpighian bodies with the same relations as those in the meso- and metanephros ..."
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