Usually means: Earliest, primitive kidney in vertebrates.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. pronephros: Merriam-Webster
  2. pronephros: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. pronephros: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pronephros: Wordnik
  5. pronephros: Wiktionary
  6. pronephros: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. pronephros: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. pronephros: Dictionary.com
  9. Pronephros: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Pronephros: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Pronephros: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. pronephros: FreeDictionary.org
  13. pronephros: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pronephros: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. pronephros: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Pronephros: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  5. pronephros: Medical dictionary

(Note: See pronephric as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pronephros)

noun:  (anatomy) A primitive kidney in the lamprey and similar animals, and in other vertebrate embryos

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