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Definition of Exoderm
1. Noun. The outer germ layer that develops into skin and nervous tissue.
Generic synonyms: Germ Layer
Specialized synonyms: Neural Tube
Derivative terms: Ectodermal, Ectodermic
Definition of Exoderm
1. Noun. An outer layer of skin. ¹
2. Noun. The outermost layer of cells in a developing embryo. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Exoderm
1. the ectoderm [n -S] - See also: ectoderm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exoderm
Literary usage of Exoderm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1897)
"Constituents of Sensory Apparatus: originally only the exoderm, or Skin-layer;
afterwards, the Skin-covering specialized from the Nerve-system. ..."
2. The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1879)
"Constituents of Sensory Apparatus: originally only the exoderm, or Skin-layer;
afterwards, the Skin-covering specialized from the Nerve-system. ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1880)
"The cells of the exoderm and endoderm, along one edge of the embryo, now become
longer and larger, entirely obliterating in their growth the segmentation ..."
4. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1874)
"formed themselves, and this in the layer of the exoderm, as the sponges teach us.
Although in the sponges the two primordial germ-lamellae have (universally ..."
5. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1874)
"When calcareous spicula are formed in the exoderm, the young sponge is an ...
membrane composed of the two layers named above—the " syncytium " or exoderm, ..."
6. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1876)
"This sphere differentiates itself into two distinct parts in all sponges; the
elements which will form the exoderm appear at one pole, and those which will ..."
7. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1876)
"... wölbt sich in die letztere hinein und nähert sich so dem exoderm. Die klare
Flüssigkeit in ... entspricht dem exoderm (e), sein Futter dem Entoderm ((') ..."