ectoderm

About 0.58 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The outermost of the three tissue layers in the embryo of a metazoan animal, which produces through development, the epidermis (skin) and nervous system of the adult.

Similar words

ectoblast stomodeal endoderm exoderm ecteron epiblast protoderm mesoectoderm cuticle ecderon

Often followed by

and of is cells in to from at which

Word family

ectodermal ectoderms