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... > Reproductive and Urinary Physiological Phenomena > Reproductive Physiological Phenomena > Reproduction > Embryonic and Fetal Development > Embryonic Development > Gastrulation
... > Physiological Phenomena > Growth and Development > Morphogenesis > Embryonic and Fetal Development > Embryonic Development > Gastrulation

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Gastrulation  

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Scope note

  • A process of complicated morphogenetic cell movements that reorganizes a bilayer embryo into one with three GERM LAYERS and specific orientation (dorsal/ventral; anterior/posterior). Gastrulation describes the germ layer development of a non-mammalian BLASTULA or that of a mammalian BLASTOCYST.

History note

  • 2008

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D054262

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