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GASTRULATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The process in which a gastrula develops from a blastula by the inward migration of cells
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("gastrulation" is a kind of...):
biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms)
Holonyms ("gastrulation" is a part of...):
development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)
Context examples:
The team, led by Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz at the University of Cambridge have developed the embryo-like structures, using three types of stem cells which let them reconstruct a process known as gastrulation, an essential step in which the embryonic cells being self-organising into the correct structure for an embryo to form.
(Scientists generate key life event in artificial mouse ‘embryo’ created from stem cells, University of Cambridge)
