cytoblasts

Schwann, go to prove that the outer integument does not consist of separate membranes, but is of a cellular structure, and that of these cells or "cytoblasts," there are three distinct kinds.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various

Schleiden describes as follows: -- "As soon as the cytoblasts have reached their full size a delicate transparent vesicle arises on their surface; this is the young cell, which at first takes the shape of a very flat segment of a sphere, of which the plane surface is formed by the cytoblast, the convex side by the young cell itself, which lies upon the cytoblast like a watch-glass on a watch" (p. 145).

Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

These nuclei had accordingly the same significance as the nuclei of plants, and deserved the same name of cytoblasts or cell-generators.

Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

a membrane, Dr. Henle maintains is composed of complicated cells or cytoblasts.

Cause and contrast : an essay on the American crisis, T. W. MacMahon 1862