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BLASTOMERE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does blastomere mean?
• BLASTOMERE (noun)
The noun BLASTOMERE has 1 sense:
1. any cell resulting from cleavage of a fertilized egg
Familiarity information: BLASTOMERE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any cell resulting from cleavage of a fertilized egg
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("blastomere" is a kind of...):
cell ((biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals)
Derivation:
blastomeric (of or relating to a blastomere)
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