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Somatopleure
So′ma-to-pleure
,Noun.
[Gr.
σῶμα
, σώματος
, body + πλευρά
side.] (Anat.)
The outer, or parietal, one of the two lamellae into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the body and the amnion are developed. See
Splanchnopleure
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somatopleure
somatopleure
English
Noun
somatopleure (plural somatopleures)
- (embryology) A fold of tissue, in the embryo of a vertebrate, from which the walls of the body and the amnion develop.