Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Undergoing discoidal segmentation of the vitellus: applied to those meroblastic eggs which thereby produce a discogastrula in germinating.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Biol.) Applied to a form of egg cleavage seen in osseous fishes, which occurs only in a small disk that separates from the rest of the egg.
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- adjective biology Having a form of
egg cleavage where only a smalldisc separates from the rest of the egg, associated withosseous fishes .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The gastrulation of the discoblastic ova, which chiefly concerns us, offers serious difficulties to microscopic investigation and philosophic consideration.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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Hence I had, in 1875 (in my essay on The Gastrula and Ovum-segmentation of Animals), counted the monotremes among the discoblastic vertebrates.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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Although the mass of the food-yelk may be very large in the ova of the discoblastic vertebrates, nevertheless in every case a blastula is developed from the morula, as in the holoblastic ova.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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According as the yelk-food accumulates at the centre or at the side of the ovum, we distinguish two groups of dividing ova, periblastic and discoblastic.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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The primitive fishes (Selachii), which we must regard as the ancestral group of the true fishes, were generally considered, until a short time ago, to be discoblastic.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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The wide comparative studies of the scientists I have named have further shown that in the case of the discoblastic higher vertebrates
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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(Lepidosteus), approaches the osseous fishes, and is discoblastic like them.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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In the discoblastic ova the food-yelk gathers at one side, at the vegetal or lower pole of the vertical axis, while the nucleus of the ovum and the great bulk of the formative yelk lie at the upper or animal pole (hence these ova are also called
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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