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Word: Parablast
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
mid 19th century (in an earlier sense). From para- + -blast; in sense 1 after either German Parablast or scientific Latin parablasta
Definition:
Especially in the terminology of W. His: a layer of cells that gives rise to the blood vessels and connective tissue of the embryo (embryonic mesenchyme), (supposedly) located outside the blastoderm.
