Usually means: Cellular movement enclosing a structure.
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  1. epiboly: Merriam-Webster
  2. epiboly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. epiboly: Collins English Dictionary
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  5. epiboly: Wiktionary
  6. epiboly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. epiboly: Infoplease Dictionary
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  9. Epiboly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Epiboly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. epiboly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Epiboly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. epiboly: FreeDictionary.org
  14. epiboly: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. epiboly: Encyclopedia

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  1. epiboly: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. epiboly: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (epiboly)

▸ noun:  (embryology) The expansion of one cell sheet over other cells, as takes place during gastrulation or secondary intention wound healing.

Similar:
epiblepharon, epichorion, inpocketing, somatopleure, outpouching, epiplocele, epicœle, embryotomy, ectostosis, amniogenesis, more...

Opposite:
hypoboly, involution

Adjectives:
early, late, normal, blastoderm, zebrafish, incomplete

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Similar:
epiblepharon, epichorion, inpocketing, somatopleure, outpouching, epiplocele, epicœle, embryotomy, ectostosis, amniogenesis, more...

Opposite:
hypoboly, involution

Adjectives:
early, late, normal, blastoderm, zebrafish, incomplete



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