embryo (noun)
121hypocotyl — noun Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary hypo + cotyledon Date: 1880 the part of the axis of a plant embryo or seedling below the cotyledon …
122implantation — noun Date: 1578 1. a. the act or process of implanting something b. the state resulting from being implanted 2. in placental mammals the process of attachment of the early embryo to the maternal uterine wall …
123mesoderm — noun Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary Date: 1873 the middle of the three primary germ layers of an embryo that is the source of many bodily tissues and structures (as bone, muscle, connective tissue, and dermis); broadly tissue… …
124mesonephros — noun (plural mesonephroi) Etymology: New Latin, from mes + Greek nephros kidney more at nephritis Date: 1887 either member of the second and midmost of the three paired vertebrate renal organs that functions in adult fishes and amphibians but… …
125mesothelium — noun (plural mesothelia) Etymology: New Latin, from mes + epithelium Date: 1886 epithelium derived from mesoderm that lines the body cavity of a vertebrate embryo and gives rise to epithelia (as of the peritoneum, pericardium, and pleura),… …
126monocotyledon — noun Etymology: ultimately from New Latin mon + cotyledon cotyledon Date: circa 1727 any of a class or subclass (Liliopsida or Monocotyledoneae) of chiefly herbaceous angiospermous plants having an embryo with a single cotyledon, usually parallel …
127neural plate — noun Date: 1888 a thickened plate of ectoderm along the dorsal midline of the early vertebrate embryo that gives rise to the neural tube and neural crests …
128neural tube — noun Date: 1888 the hollow longitudinal dorsal tube formed by infolding and subsequent fusion of the opposite ectodermal folds in the vertebrate embryo that gives rise to the brain and spinal cord …
