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Splanchnopleure

Splanch′no-pleure

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Noun.
[Gr. [GREEK][GREEK][GREEK][GREEK] an entrail + [GREEK][GREEK][GREEK][GREEK] side.]
(Anat.)
The inner, or visceral, one of the two lamellae into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the enteric canal and the umbilical vesicle are developed. See
Somatopleure
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Splanchˊno-pleu′ric
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Adj.

Definition 2024


splanchnopleure

splanchnopleure

English

Noun

splanchnopleure (plural splanchnopleures)

  1. A layer of embryonic cells formed from the mesoderm and endoderm that develops into the wall of the viscera

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