Blastula synonyms

blăs'chə-lə

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blastocyst (related)
The modified blastula that is characteristic of placental mammals. It has an outer layer, known as a trophoblast , that participates in the development of the placenta. The inner layer of cells develops into the embryo.
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gastrula (related)
(Embryology) A stage in the development of embryos of most animals consisting of a two-layered sac of ectoderm and endoderm.
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  • (Modified from Horst.) A, Blastula stage (one-cell-layered eaten its way into the in sac), with commencing invaginated endodermal sac, vagination of the wall of the and the cells pushed in with sac at bl, the blastopore.

  • The four principal phases in the development are: (I) Blastula, (2) Gastrula, (3) Flagellate Embryo, (4) Larva.

  • Then follows the phenomenon of gastrulation, by which onehalf of the blastula is invaginated into the other, so as to obliterate the segmentation cavity.

  • The result of cleavage in all cases is a typical blastula, which when set free becomes oval and develops a flagellum to each cell, but when not set free, it remains spherical in form and has no flagella.

  • When the blastula is oval and freeswimming the inner mass is formed by unipolar immigration from the hinder pole.

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