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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A thickened plate of dorsal ectoderm that differentiates into the neural tube and neural crest.
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- noun anatomy a thick, flat bundle of
ectoderm formed invertebrate embryos after induction by thenotochord
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