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n. - The inner germ layer that develops into the lining of the digestive and respiratory systems.

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  • The parietal and visceral mesoblast, or the two middle layers, are always of later origin, and arise through evagination or plaiting of the entoblast, the remainder of...
  • Then every mesoblast contracts; the contraction deepens, till it is divided across in both directions, separating thus into four parts, then into eight, then into sixteen, and...
  • The following passage gives a good idea of their views and of the phylogenetic implications involved: -- "Ectoblast and entoblast are the two primary germ-layers which...
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