nephrotome

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A section of the mesoderm formerly believed to give rise to the pronephros and eventually to the rest of the kidney.

Word forms

nephrotome nephrotomes

Etymology

From nephro- + -tome.

Derived words

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