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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 hypoblast is the lining of the intestine and of the glands which open into it; and the material of the notochord is also regarded, as hypoblast.
  • Entoderm: the innermost germ layer of the embryo, from which are derived the epithelium of the alimentary canal and accessory structures: = endoderm and hypoblast.
  • In this form, he says, the progaster is already developed, and its wall is differentiated for the first time into an animal or dermal layer (ectoblast), and into a vegetative...
  • Epiblast is indicated by a line of dashes, mesoblast by dots, and hypoblast, dark or black.
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