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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In embryology, the supposed original localization of the various organs of the adult, as specific substances or structures, in different regions of the unsegmented egg.
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- noun biology The original
localization of structures in an unsegmentedembryo that become specificorgans in theadult
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