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ANLAGE (anlagen)
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Irregular inflected form: anlagen
Dictionary entry overview: What does anlage mean?
• ANLAGE (noun)
The noun ANLAGE has 1 sense:
1. an organ in its earliest stage of development; the foundation for subsequent development
Familiarity information: ANLAGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An organ in its earliest stage of development; the foundation for subsequent development
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Synonyms:
anlage; primordium
Hypernyms ("anlage" is a kind of...):
organ (a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function)
Context examples
Endoderm and mesoderm are initially specified as a bipotential anlage called the endomesoderm.
(Endomesoderm, NCI Thesaurus)
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