Ectoderm — Infobox Embryology Name = PAGENAME Latin = GraySubject = 6 GrayPage = 48 Caption = Organs derived from ectoderm. Caption2 = Section through embryonic disk of Vespertilio murinus. System = CarnegieStage = Days = 16 Precursor = GivesRiseTo =… … Wikipedia
ectoderm — ectodermal, ectodermic, adj. ectodermoidal /ek toh deuhr moyd l/, adj. /ek teuh derrm /, n. Embryol. the outer germ layer in the embryo of a metazoan. Also called ectoblast. [1860 65; ECTO + DERM] * * * ▪ anatomy the outermost of the three… … Universalium
Neural development — comprises the processes that generate, shape, and reshape the nervous system, from the earliest stages of embryogenesis to the final years of life. The study of neural development aims to describe the cellular basis of brain development and to… … Wikipedia
Lens (anatomy) — Crystalline lens (anatomy) Light from a single point of a distant object and light from a single point of a near object being brought to a focus by changing the curvature of the lens … Wikipedia
Neural crest — The formation of neural crest during the process of neurulation. Neural crest is first induced in the region of the neural plate border. After neural tube closure, neural crest delaminates from the region between the dorsal neural tube and… … Wikipedia
Neural tube — Transverse section of half of a chick embryo of forty five hours incubation. The dorsal (back) surface of the embryo is towards the top of this page, while the ventral (front) surface is towards the bottom. (Neural tube is in green.) … Wikipedia
Embryology — 1 morula, 2 blastula 1 blastula, 2 gastrula with blastopor … Wikipedia
Neural development in humans — Main article: Neural development The study of neural development draws on both neuroscience and developmental biology to describe the cellular and molecular mechanisms by which complex nervous systems emerge during embryonic development and… … Wikipedia
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Gastrulation — of a diploblast: The formation of germ layers from a (1) blastula to a (2) gastrula. Some of the ectoderm cells (orange) move inward forming the endoderm (red). Gastrulation is a phase early in the embryonic development of most animals, during… … Wikipedia
