hypoblast

[hahy-puh-blast]

hy·po·blast

[hahy-puh-blast]
noun Embryology.
1.
the endoderm.
2.
the cells entering into the inner layer of a young gastrula, capable of becoming endoderm and, to a certain extent, mesoderm.

Origin:
1820–30; hypo- + -blast

hy·po·blas·tic, adjective
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Hypoblast is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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hypoblast (ˈhaɪpəˌblæst)
 
n
1.  embryol Also called: endoblast the inner layer of an embryo at an early stage of development that becomes the endoderm at gastrulation
2.  a less common name for endoderm
 
hypo'blastic
 
adj

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hypoblast hy·po·blast (hī'pə-blāst')
n.
See endoderm.


hy'po·blas'tic adj.

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