blastula

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If we say that a blastula is a human being, I can't even imagine the scale of the tragedy we've engendered just by attempting to bring new life into the world.

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  1. noun An early embryonic form produced by cleavage of a fertilized ovum and consisting of a spherical layer of cells surrounding a fluid-filled cavity. Also called blastosphere.

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  • Our eggs don't seem to have much, if any, spatial information initially, and all of the cells in the early blastula are mostly equivalent. —  Pharyngula
  • If we say that a blastula is a human being, I can't even imagine the scale of the tragedy we've engendered just by attempting to bring new life into the world. —  Charlottesville Blogs
  • A blastula is an embryo in the early stage of development. —  The Earth Times Online Newspaper
  • (B) Fate map of blastula-mesenchyme blastula stage embryo. —  PLoS Biology: New Articles
  • Consequently the expression in the blastula is restricted to subgroups of cells without clear orientation (figure 2B). —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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  1. New Latin : from Greek blastos, bud + Latin -ula, feminine diminutive suffix.

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  1. New Latin, diminutive of Greek βλαστός, a germ: see blastus.
 

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/ˈblæstʃjulə/
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