Definition of gastrula. Meaning of gastrula. Synonyms of gastrula

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Definition of gastrula

Gastrula
Stomapoda Sto*map"o*da, n. pl. [NL. See Stoma, and -poda.] (Zo["o]l.) An order of Crustacea including the squillas. The maxillipeds are leglike in form, and the large claws are comblike. They have a large and elongated abdomen, which contains a part of the stomach and heart; the abdominal appendages are large, and bear the gills. Called also Gastrula, Stomatopoda, and Squilloidea.
gastrula
Planula Plan"u*la, n.; pl. Planul[ae]. [L., a little plane.] 1. (Biol.) In embryonic development, a vesicle filled with fluid, formed from the morula by the divergence of its cells in such a manner as to give rise to a central space, around which the cells arrange themselves as an envelope; an embryonic form intermediate between the morula and gastrula. Sometimes used as synonymous with gastrula.
Gastrula
Gastrula Gas"tru*la, n.; pl. Gastrul[ae][NL., dim. fr. Gr. ? the stomach.] (Biol.) An embryonic form having its origin in the invagination or pushing in of the wall of the planula or blastula (the blastosphere) on one side, thus giving rise to a double-walled sac, with one opening or mouth (the blastopore) which leads into the cavity (the archenteron) lined by the inner wall (the hypoblast). See Illust. under Invagination. In a more general sense, an ideal stage in embryonic development. See Gastr[ae]a. -- a. Of or pertaining to a gastrula.

Meaning of gastrula from wikipedia

- is reorganized into a two-layered or three-layered embryo known as the gastrula. Before gastrulation, the embryo is a continuous epithelial sheet of cells;...
- blastula develops into a structure called a gastrula through a process called gastrulation. The gastrula then undergoes further development, including...
- embryo enlarges, and is the essential precursor for the differentiated gastrula.[page needed] In the Xenopus a very small cavity has been described in...
- as well. The term refers to the order of organization of cells in the gastrula leading to development of the coelom. In mollusks, annelids, and arthropods...
- early embryo become a blastula. The blastula precedes the formation of the gastrula in which the germ layers of the embryo form. A common feature of a vertebrate...
- development in which neurulation occurs. The neurula stage is preceded by the gastrula stage; consequentially, neurulation is preceded by gastrulation. Neurulation...
- Cells migrating inward along the archenteron form the inner layer of the gastrula, which develops into the endoderm. The endoderm consists at first of flattened...
- the presence of neurons and muscles, and an embryo that goes through a gastrula stage. Some phylogenists once speculated the sponges and eumetazoans evolved...
- multiple layers, a gastrula (seen in the figure to the right). Reptiles, birds and mammals are triploblastic organisms, meaning the gastrula comprises three...
- undergoes more complicated rearrangement. It first in****tes to form a gastrula with a digestive chamber and two separate germ layers, an external ectoderm...