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Word: Metanephros
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late 19th century; earliest use found in Ray Lankester (1847–1929), zoologist. From meta- + ancient Greek νεϕρός kidney, after German Metanephron
Definition:
The most caudal and latest-developing part of the nephrogenic tissue of vertebrate embryos, which becomes the permanent kidney in amniotes. Compare mesonephros, pronephros.
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