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Definition of Somatopleure
1. n. The outer, or parietal, one of the two lamellæ 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.
Definition of Somatopleure
1. Noun. (embryology) A fold of tissue, in the embryo of a vertebrate, from which the walls of the body and the amnion develop. ¹
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Definition of Somatopleure
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Medical Definition of Somatopleure
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Somatopleure
Literary usage of Somatopleure
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Laboratory Text-book of Embryology by Charles Sedgwick Minot (1903)
"The somatic mesoderm, together with the overlying ectoderm, constitute the
somatopleure or primitive body-wall. The splanchnic mesoderm, together with the ..."
2. An Introduction to Vertebrate Embryology: Based on the Study of the Frog and by Albert Moore Reese (1904)
"... but at the lower pole of the yolk is still continuous with that peripheral
remnant of the somatopleure now called the serous membrane. ..."
3. The Elements of Embryology by Michael Foster, Francis Maitland Balfour (1874)
"... but of these only the uppermost layer, that immediately under the epiblast,
appears to be continued into the somatopleure; the whole of the remainder, ..."
4. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1881)
"On either side of the notochord the divergence of somatopleure and ...
The somatopleure, folded in to some extent to form the body-walls, ..."
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