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neural tubes

neural tubes is the plural of neural tube.

Meaning of neural tube

Noun

neural tube (plural neural tubes)

  1. A hollow longitudinal dorsal tube formed in the folding and subsequent fusion of the opposite ectodermal folds in the embryo that gives rise to the brain and spinal cord.

Questions about neural tubes

What is neural tubes the plural of?
Neural tubes is the plural of neural tube.

Words near neural tubes in the dictionary

  1. neural processing unit
  2. neural processing units
  3. neural spine
  4. neural spines
  5. neural tube
  6. neural tubes
  7. neuralation
  8. neuralese
  9. neuralgia
  10. neuralgiac
  11. neuralgias

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