Definition of blastema in US English:
blastema
nounPlural blastemas, Plural blastemata blaˈstēməblaˈstēmə
The primary formative material of plants and animals, from which cells are developed.
Example sentencesExamples
- The first polypide is formed from a blastema of varying origin, and further zooids in the colony develop through budding.
- This tether prevents the nerve from retracting too far into the stump and keeps it near the center of the developing blastema.
- Fibroblast-like cells migrate into the empty segments of the developing blastema to establish cell lines that later become myoblasts.
- The presence of limb buds was determined by close examination of the blastema for the evagination of a protruding bud.
- In planarian regeneration, they could be instrumental to transforming the homogeneous blastema and postblastema fields into discrete patterned regions.
Derivatives
adjective
Nephroblastoma is an embryonal neoplasm derived from nephrogenic blastemal cells primarily occurring in children who are younger than 6 years.
Example sentencesExamples
- The smears were moderately cellular and included an admixture of the characteristic small ovoid blastemal elements and scattered spindled mesenchymal tumor cells.
- Skeletal muscle and blastemal elements were also absent.
- Other morphology that this tumor may exhibit would be a predominantly papillary, microcystic, or blastemal growth pattern.
- The result is a movement of the transfected blastemal cells to more proximal regions in the intercalating regenerate.
adjectiveˌblastəˈmatik