Definitions for gastrula

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gastrula gas·tru·la

Spelling: [gas-troo-luh]

IPA: /ˈgæs trʊ lə/

Gastrula is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 264 anagrams from letters in gastrula (aaglrstu).

Definitions for gastrula

noun

1. a metazoan embryo in an early state of germ layer formation following the blastula stage, consisting of a cuplike body of two layers of cells, the ectoderm and endoderm, enclosing a central cavity, or archenteron, that opens to the outside by the blastopore: in most animals progressing to the formation of a third cell layer, the mesoderm.

Origin of gastrula

From New Latin, dating back to 1875-80; See origin at gastro-, -ule

Examples for gastrula

A gastrula is established by a mixed process of embole and epibole.

gastrula: that embryonic stage resembling a sac, with an outer layer of epiblastic cells and an inner layer of hypoblastic cells.

Both the blastosphere and gastrula often swim freely by flagella.

The two layers of the gastrula may now be spoken of as ectoderm and entoderm.

This gastrula is the simplest form of the "person," and the two germinal layers are its sole organs.

You know, from the second lecture, what a gastrula of our sea-urchin is.

The gastrula stage was the palingenetic repetition of the ancestral form of all Metazoa, the Gastræa.

The formation of the gastrula and behaviour of the blastopore: together with the origin of the hypoblast.

The blastosphere determines the orientation of the gastrula, and so forth.

No satisfactory phylogenetic explanation of the Mammalian gastrula by epibole has in my opinion as yet been offered.