PROTOVERTEBRA


Meaning of PROTOVERTEBRA in English

noun one of the primitive masses, or segments, into which the mesoblast of the vertebrate embryo breaks up on either side of the anterior part of the notochord; a mesoblastic, or protovertebral, somite. ·see ·illust. of ectoderm.

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