BLASTEMA (blastemata)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: blastemata   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does blastema mean? 

• BLASTEMA (noun)
  The noun BLASTEMA has 1 sense:

1. a mass of undifferentiated cells from which an organ or body part develops

  Familiarity information: BLASTEMA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLASTEMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mass of undifferentiated cells from which an organ or body part develops

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("blastema" 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:

blastemal; blastematic; blastemic (of or relating to blastemata)

 Context examples 

Remnants of nephrogenic blastema cells in the kidney following embryonic development.

(Nephrogenic Rest, NCI Thesaurus)

Wilms tumor of the kidney characterized by the presence of blastema, epithelial, and mesenchymal components (triphasic pattern) or a combination of two of them (biphasic pattern).

(Mixed Cell Type Renal Wilms Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

A hepatoblastoma composed of cells resembling fetal epithelial cells and small round cells resembling blastema cells.

(Hepatoblastoma with Combined Fetal and Embryonal Epithelial Differentiation, NCI Thesaurus)

The septa contain immature epithelial cells, immature stromal cells, and blastema cells.

(Cystic Partially Differentiated Nephroblastoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Wilms tumor of the kidney characterized by the predominance of the blastema component.

(Blastema Predominant Renal Wilms Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)