Definitions for epiblast

epiblast ep·i·blast

Spelling: [ep-uh-blast]
IPA: /ˈɛp əˌblæst/

Epiblast is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 524 anagrams from letters in epiblast (abeilpst).

Definitions for epiblast

noun

  1. the primordial outer layer of a young embryo before the segregation of the germ layers, capable of becoming the ectoderm and containing cells capable of becoming the mesoderm and endoderm.

Origin of epiblast

First recorded in 1865-70; epi- + -blast

Examples for epiblast

The upper of these is the epiblast, and the lower the hypoblast.

The mesoblast is attached in the median line to the epiblast.

Ectoblast: the outer wall of a cell; the ectoderm or epiblast.

The division of the epiblast into a nervous and epidermic stratum.

They originate as pouches of the hypoblast, which meet the epiblast.

They are coated by epiblast and contain a core of mesoblast.

These have supposed that the mesoblast is derived from the epiblast.

The inner of the two is called the hypoblast, the outer the epiblast.

Of the mode of increase of the epiblast I have but little to say.

The outer of these is the epiblast, the inner the mesoblast.

Word Value for epiblast
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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