Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The formation of a gastrula from a blastula by invagination.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In embryology, that mode of invagination by which a vesicular morula or blastosphere becomes a gastrula.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) Embolic invagination. See under
invagination .
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- noun biology
embolic invagination
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Greek embolē, insertion, from emballein, to insert; see emblem.]
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Ancient Greek a putting into.
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