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Definition of Morula
1. Noun. A solid mass of blastomeres that forms when the zygote splits; develops into the blastula.
Definition of Morula
1. n. The sphere or globular mass of cells (blastomeres), formed by the clevage of the ovum or egg in the first stages of its development; -- called also mulberry mass, segmentation sphere, and blastosphere. See Segmentation.
Definition of Morula
1. Noun. (biology) A spherical mass of blastomeres that forms following the splitting of a zygote; it becomes the blastula. ¹
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Definition of Morula
1. an embryonic mass of cells [n -LAE or -LAS] : MORULAR [adj]
Medical Definition of Morula
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Morula
Literary usage of Morula
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Early Embryology of the Chick by Bradley Merrill Patten (1920)
"The morula Stage.—It should by no means be inferred that cell division ceases
... This is known as a morula from its resemblance to the mulberry fruit which ..."
2. The Evolution of Man; a Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haecker (1886)
"... we need only continue to trace the ontogenetic modification of the Amphioxus-morula
in the next stages. The first thing noticed is that a watery fluid ..."
3. The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1879)
"Third Ancestral Stage : Syn-Amoeba, Ontogenetically reproduced in the morula.—A
Community of Homogeneous Amoeboid Cells. ..."
4. The Story of Creation: A Plain Account of Evolution by Edward Clodd (1888)
"The cells divide 1 in definite order into two, then into four, eight, sixteen,
and so on, clustering together in a FIG. 66.—Stages of Cell division. morula, ..."
5. A Manual of the Infusoria: Including a Description of All Known Flagellate by William Saville Kent (1880)
"Such a morula is, however, not limited to the Metazoa. As demonstrated in the
chapter devoted ... In no point can the segmented cell-mass or morula of the ..."
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