English Explanatory Dictionary

protovertebra

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. One of the primitive masses, or segments, into which the mesoblast of the vertebrate embryo breaks up on either side of the anterior part of the notochord; a mesoblastic, or protovertebral, somite.

Word forms

protovertebra protovertebrae

Etymology

From proto- + vertebra.

Related words

protovertebrate
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