extraembryonic
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editextraembryonic (not comparable)
- (medicine) Inside the womb, but outside the embryo.
- 1998, Julian Lombardi, Comparative Vertebrate Reproduction[1], Springer, →ISBN, page 237:
- Subsequent cell and tissue interactions lead to the functional differentiation of all embryonic and extraembryonic tissues.
- 2006, Manfred Schliwa, Molecular Motors, page 359:
- The clockwise beating of cilia results in a net flow of extraembryonic fluid leftwards […]