EMBRYONIC TISSUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does embryonic tissue mean? 

• EMBRYONIC TISSUE (noun)
  The noun EMBRYONIC TISSUE has 1 sense:

1. tissue in an embryo

  Familiarity information: EMBRYONIC TISSUE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMBRYONIC TISSUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tissue in an embryo

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("embryonic tissue" is a kind of...):

animal tissue (the tissue in the bodies of animals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "embryonic tissue"):

germ layer ((embryology) any of the 3 layers of cells differentiated in embryos following gastrulation)

 Context examples 

Pattern Formation is a developmental morphogenetic process that establishes basic configurations of cellular organization necessary for further and accurate development of the spatial arrangements of embryonic tissue.

(Pattern Formation, NCI Thesaurus)

Using a technique called lineage tracing, scientists determined that theca cells in mice come from both inside and outside the ovary, from embryonic tissue called mesenchyme.

(Study solves ovarian cell mystery, shedding new light on reproductive disorders, NIH)

A developmental morphogenetic process that establishes the basic configuration of cellular organization necessary for further and accurate development of the spatial arrangement of embryonic tissue along the dorsal-ventral axis.

(Dorsal-Ventral Pattern Formation, NCI Thesaurus)

Partial hydatidiform moles are characterized by focal chorionic villi swelling, focal trophoblastic hyperplasia, and identifiable fetal or embryonic tissue.

(Partial Hydatidiform Mole, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A biologic product that consists of undifferentiated stem cells, obtained from adult bone marrow or other non-embryonic tissue sources, that are expanded in vitro and deposited in master cell banks for off-the-shelf use, with potential hematopoiesis-inducing and immunomodulating activities.

(Allogeneic Multipotent Adult Progenitor Cells, NCI Thesaurus)

Embryonic tissue of mesodermal origin.

(Mesenchyme, NCI Thesaurus)