Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In embryology, one of the nucleate masses of protoplasm lying in the unsegmented yolk of a meroblastic ovum, such as the ovum of sharks, birds, etc.
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- noun biology Any
cell formed by division of ameroblastic ovum
Etymologies
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mero- + -cyte
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It may, however, continue for some time (even after the gastrulation is more or less complete) in the sense that the vegetal cell-nuclei distributed in the deutoplasm slowly increase by cleavage; as each of them is surrounded by a small quantity of protoplasm, it may afterwards appropriate a portion of the food-yelk, and thus form a real "yelk-cell" (merocyte).
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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