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extraembryonic

extraembryonic adjective: inside the womb, but outside the embryo.

Adjective

extraembryonic (not comparable)

  1. Inside the womb, but outside the embryo.
    • Subsequent cell and tissue interactions lead to the functional differentiation of all embryonic and extraembryonic tissues.1998, Julian Lombardi, Comparative Vertebrate Reproduction, Springer, →ISBN, page 237
    • The clockwise beating of cilia results in a net flow of extraembryonic fluid leftwards […]2006, Manfred Schliwa, Molecular Motors, page 359

Origin of extraembryonic

From extra- + embryonic.

Questions about extraembryonic

What does extraembryonic mean?
Extraembryonic means inside the womb, but outside the embryo.
What part of speech is extraembryonic?
Extraembryonic is an adjective.

Words near extraembryonic in the dictionary

  1. extradural
  2. extradurally
  3. extradurals
  4. extradyadic
  5. extraembryonal
  6. extraembryonic
  7. extraembryonically
  8. extraenteric
  9. extraenzymatic
  10. extraepiglottic
  11. extraepiphyseal

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