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 +...
- development of a more advanced kidney: the archinephros, pronephros, mesonephros, and metanephros. The pronephros is the most immature form of kidney...
- functional in adults, including often simultaneously with the mesonephros. The mesonephros is the final kidney in amphibians and most fish. Evolutionary...
- different kidney systems form in the developing embryo: the pronephros, the mesonephros and the metanephros. Only the metanephros develops into the permanent...
- These embryonic structures are on either side: the pronephros, the mesonephros and the metanephros of the kidney, and the Wolffian and Müllerian ducts...
- the mesonephros and gonadal ridge are continuous, but as the embryo grows the gonadal ridge gradually becomes pinched off from the mesonephros. However...
- system, named pronephros, mesonephros and metanephros respectively (anamniote embryos form only a pronephros and mesonephros). The intermediate mesoderm...
- mesovarium; rather, it is covered by germinal epithelium. At first, the mesonephros and genital ridge are suspended by a common mesentery, but as the embryo...
- wall of the embryonic aorta within the (midgestational) aorta-gonad-mesonephros region, through a process known as endothelial-to-hematopoietic transition...
- to form a glomerulus. The tubules collectively constitute the mesonephros. The mesonephros persists and form the permanent kidneys in fish and amphibians...