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Word: Pronephros
Speech Type: Noun
late 19th century; earliest use found in Ray Lankester (1847–1929), zoologist. From pro- + ancient Greek νεϕρός kidney
The most anterior (or superior) and first-developing part of the nephrogenic tissue of vertebrate embryos, which is functional only in the larvae of fishes and amphibians, and persists into adult life only in hagfishes and a few teleosts; = head kidney. Compare mesonephros, metanephros.
- pronephron
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