Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mesectodermal

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: me-sec-to-der-mal
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Relating to the mesectoderm.

Example Sentences

"Here the mesectodermal substrate was transplanted with the ectoderm, with the result that in four cases out of seven balancers developed, while in the other three development began, but was arrested."
"The cells then interdigitate to form a single-cell-wide strip that now occupies the ventral midline, the mesectodermal cells."
"During neurulation in chick embryos, as the neural folds fuse dorsally, CNC cells delaminate and migrate to generate several cephalic structures that comprise mesectodermal and neural derivatives."

Etymology

From mesectoderm + -al.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: mesectoderm

Frequently Paired Words

ectodermal endodermal

Questions

What does mesectodermal mean?: Relating to the mesectoderm.
Where does mesectodermal come from?: From mesectoderm + -al.

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