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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A thickened plate of dorsal ectoderm that differentiates into the neural tube and neural crest.

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  • noun anatomy a thick, flat bundle of ectoderm formed in vertebrate embryos after induction by the notochord

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