Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a blastopore; blastoporic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective of or pertaining to a blastopore.
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- adjective biology Pertaining to a
blastopore ;blastoporic .
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- adjective of or relating to a blastopore
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Examples
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The main assumption was that the neural or blastoporal surface must be homologous throughout the Metazoa, though it was dorsal in the Chordata, ventral in the Annelida and Arthropoda.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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He derived the central nervous system of the Chordata from the circumoral ring of the common ancestor by means of the hypothesis that both the pre-blastoporal and the post-blastoporal parts of it disappeared. [
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
hernesheir commented on the word blastoporal
blastoporic
July 10, 2010