Usually means: Embryonic formation of germ layers.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. gastrulation: Merriam-Webster
  2. gastrulation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gastrulation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gastrulation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gastrulation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gastrulation, gastrulation: Wordnik
  7. gastrulation: Wiktionary
  8. gastrulation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. gastrulation: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. gastrulation: Dictionary.com
  11. Gastrulation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Gastrulation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. gastrulation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. gastrulation: Rhymezone
  15. Gastrulation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. gastrulation: FreeDictionary.org
  17. gastrulation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. gastrulation: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. gastrulation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. gastrulation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  5. gastrulation: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (gastrulation)

▸ noun:  (embryology, biology) The stage of embryo development at which a gastrula is formed from the blastula by the inward migration of cells.

Similar:
gastrula, embole, exogastrulation, blastulation, delamination, blastoderm, pharyngula, blastocyst, gastruloid, germ layer, more...

Opposite:
blastulation, fertilization, cleavage

Types:
blastula, gastrula, epiblast, hypoblast, endoderm, ectoderm, mesoderm, more...

Adjectives:
amphibian, early, zebrafish, avian, vertebrate, normal, late, epibolic, short, pre, mammalian

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Similar:
gastrula, embole, exogastrulation, blastulation, delamination, blastoderm, pharyngula, blastocyst, gastruloid, germ layer, more...

Opposite:
blastulation, fertilization, cleavage

Types:
blastula, gastrula, epiblast, hypoblast, endoderm, ectoderm, mesoderm, more...

Adjectives:
amphibian, early, zebrafish, avian, vertebrate, normal, late, epibolic, short, pre, mammalian



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