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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In embryology, the monerula-stage of a meroblastic egg which undergoes discoidal segmentation of the vitellus or yolk, and in germinating becomes in succession a disco-cytula, discomorula, discoblastula, and dis.co-gastrula.

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