MESONEPHROS


Meaning of MESONEPHROS in English

noun (plural mesonephroi) see: nephritis Date: 1887 either member of the second and midmost of the three paired vertebrate renal organs that functions in adult fishes and amphibians but functions only in the embryo of reptiles, birds, and mammals in which it is replaced by a metanephros in the adult, mesonephric adjective

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