Definition of blastoderm in English:
blastoderm
noun ˈblastə(ʊ)dəːmˈblæstəˌdərm
Embryology A blastula having the form of a disc of cells on top of the yolk.
Example sentencesExamples
- When the membranes surrounding the peripheral nuclei fuse to form the 6000 cells of the cellular blastoderm, they enclose 175-225 polyploid yolk nuclei within a large syncytial yolk cell.
- Pole cells cease dividing after the formation of the cellular blastoderm.
- When the egg is laid, the blastoderm contains several hundred cells.
- At cellular blastoderm most of the EAR protein is associated with cells at the periphery, while some protein is still associated with yolk nuclei.
- As a result, the blastodisc on the yolk becomes a blastoderm.
Definition of blastoderm in US English:
blastoderm
nounˈblæstəˌdərmˈblastəˌdərm
Embryology 1The layer of embryonic tissue that forms prior to the development of the embryonic axis.
Example sentencesExamples
- In the fruit fly, segments are genetically delimitated early and simultaneously, when the embryo still is a blastoderm and the process of segmentation does not involve somites.
- Early development is essentially two-dimensional; patterning occurs mainly in the blastoderm, the superficial layer of the embryo that consists first of nuclei and later of cells.
- We examined Fumble staining during the mitotic divisions of the cellular blastoderm.
- Apparently, there is little similarity between the simultaneous subdivision of the blastoderm into parasegments seen in Drosophila and the posterior addition of segments from a sub-terminal growth zone seen in many crustaceans.
- 1.1 The outer layer of cells that forms the wall of a blastula.
Example sentencesExamples
- At cellular blastoderm most of the EAR protein is associated with cells at the periphery, while some protein is still associated with yolk nuclei.
- When the membranes surrounding the peripheral nuclei fuse to form the 6000 cells of the cellular blastoderm, they enclose 175-225 polyploid yolk nuclei within a large syncytial yolk cell.
- As a result, the blastodisc on the yolk becomes a blastoderm.
- When the egg is laid, the blastoderm contains several hundred cells.
- Pole cells cease dividing after the formation of the cellular blastoderm.