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neural crest en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A strip of ectodermal material in the early vertebrate embryo inserted between the prospective neural plate and the epidermis.
    • All of these features are under the control of a particular set of cells in the embryo called the neural crest, from which a particular part of the brain, the amygdala, derives. 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 167:

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Deriveds

neural crest syndrome

Translations (2)

fr crête neurale (ectodermal material) · ar عُرْف عَصَبِيّ (ectodermal material)