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What does epiblast mean?

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Noun
  1. (biology) The outer layer of a blastula that, after gastrulation, becomes the ectoderm.
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Teeth-enamel is formed from the epiblast, and dentine, cementum, pulp from the mesoblast.
When the egg of Amphioxus is in the blastosphere stage we cannot speak of either an epiblast or hypoblast.
It illustrates the characters of the epiblast, the embryonic swelling, the segmentation cavity.
We also show that 3iL hESCs have a distinct epigenetic landscape, characterized by derepression of preimplantation epiblast genes.
The atrial cavities in Pyrosoma are clearly lined by epiblast, just as in simple Ascidians.
Both of these strata eventually become the epiblast, of which they form the epidermic and nervous layers.

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