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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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The cells lying between the primitive endoderm and the polar trophectoderm comprise the embryonic ectoderm or epiblast.
When the egg of Amphioxus is in the blastosphere stage we cannot speak of either an epiblast or hypoblast.
These layers do not represent ectoderm and endoderm, respectively, since almost all the cells that form the embryo are contained in the epiblast.
Both of these strata eventually become the epiblast, of which they form the epidermic and nervous layers.
It illustrates the characters of the epiblast, the embryonic swelling, the segmentation cavity.
Teeth-enamel is formed from the epiblast, and dentine, cementum, pulp from the mesoblast.

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