Definition of Metanephros

1. n. The most posterior of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in many vertebrates.

Definition of Metanephros

1. Noun. (anatomy) The most posterior of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in many vertebrates. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Metanephros

1. [n -NEPHROI]

Medical Definition of Metanephros

1. The most posterior of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in many vertebrates. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Behind + kidney. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Metanephros

metanauplius
metanavigation
metanephric
metanephric blastema
metanephric bud
metanephric cap
metanephric diverticulum
metanephric duct
metanephric tubule
metanephridium
metanephrine
metanephritic
metanephrogenic
metanephrogenic tissue
metanephroi
metanephros (current term)
metanephroses
metanetwork
metanetworks
metaneutrophil
metanil yellow
metanoete
metanoia
metanoias
metanopirone
metanota
metanotum
metantimonate
metantimonates
metantimonic

Literary usage of Metanephros

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"The metanephros and the Permanent Kidney.—The rudiments of the permanent kidneys ... Each kidney has a two-fold origin, part arising from the metanephros, ..."

2. An Introduction to the Study of the Comparative Anatomy of Animals: A by Gilbert Charles Bourne, Arthur Bolles Lee (1902)
"... system is distinguished as the metanephros, and it forms Fig. 56 BA Urogenital system of the female. /,'. Urogenital system of the male ..."

3. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1885)
"The chief structural peculiarity of the pronephros is the absence from it of Malpighian bodies with the same relations as those in the meso- and metanephros ..."

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