Definition of Mesonephros. Meaning of Mesonephros. Synonyms of Mesonephros

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Definition of Mesonephros

Mesonephros
Mesonephros Mes`o*neph"ros, n. [NL., fr. Gr. me`sos middle + nefro`s kidney.] (Anat.) The middle one of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in most vertebrates; the Wolffian body.

Meaning of Mesonephros from wikipedia

- The mesonephros is included in the Wolffian body after Caspar Friedrich Wolff who described it in 1759. (The Wolffian body is composed of: mesonephros +...
- to form a glomerulus. The tubules collectively constitute the mesonephros. The mesonephros persists and form the permanent kidneys in fish and amphibians...
- These embryonic structures are on either side: the pronephros, the mesonephros and the metanephros of the kidney, and the Wolffian and Müllerian ducts...
- functional in adults, including often simultaneously with the mesonephros. The mesonephros is the final kidney in amphibians and most fish. Evolutionary...
- was much greater in the aorta gonad mesonephros region. LTR-HSC activity was also found in the aorta gonad mesonephros region at a slightly earlier time...
- development of a more advanced kidney: the archinephros, pronephros, mesonephros, and metanephros. The pronephros is the most immature form of kidney...
- different kidney systems form in the developing embryo: the pronephros, the mesonephros and the metanephros. Only the metanephros develops into the permanent...
- system, named pronephros, mesonephros and metanephros respectively (anamniote embryos form only a pronephros and mesonephros). The intermediate mesoderm...
- anatomy, and botany. He was the discoverer of the primitive kidneys (mesonephros), or "Wolffian bodies" and its excretory ducts. He described these in...
- the mesonephros and gonadal ridge are continuous, but as the embryo grows the gonadal ridge gradually becomes pinched off from the mesonephros. However...