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BLASTOCYTE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does blastocyte mean?
• BLASTOCYTE (noun)
The noun BLASTOCYTE has 1 sense:
1. an undifferentiated embryonic cell
Familiarity information: BLASTOCYTE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An undifferentiated embryonic cell
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Hypernyms ("blastocyte" is a kind of...):
embryonic cell; formative cell (a cell of an embryo)
Context examples
Undifferentiated cell in an embryo which can undergo division and give rise to one or several cell types; cell line is derived from early blastocytes.
(Embryonic Stem Cell, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)
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