Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In embryology, an embryonic cell which takes part in the formation of the blood-vessels and -corpuscles.
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- noun biology A
cell thatdifferentiates intoblood cells andendothelium within anembryo
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Examples
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The nucleated red blood corpuscles develop either from small masses of the original angioblast left attached to the inner wall of the lumen or directly from the flat endothelial cells.
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Here a new type of cell, the angioblast or vasoformative cell, is differentiated from the mesoderm.
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