extraembryonic
English
Etymology
From extra- + embryonic.
Adjective
extraembryonic (not comparable)
- (medicine) Inside the womb, but outside the embryo.
- 1998, Julian Lombardi, Comparative Vertebrate Reproduction, Springer, →ISBN, page 237,
- Subsequent cell and tissue interactions lead to the functional differentiation of all embryonic and extraembryonic tissues.
- 2006, Manfred Schliwa, Molecular Motors, page 359:
- The clockwise beating of cilia results in a net flow of extraembryonic fluid leftwards […]
- 1998, Julian Lombardi, Comparative Vertebrate Reproduction, Springer, →ISBN, page 237,