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Anlage
noun
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Noun
- 1 A primordium, the initial clustering of embryonic cells from which a body part develops.
"Stockard has shown that, not only do anesthetics arrest the development of the intra-embryonic blood vessels in the embryos of Fundulus, at an early ontogenetic stage, but in such a manner that no doubt can now exist that, under normal conditions, these vessels are formed in situ by a concrescence of independent and discontinuous anlagen, and that their endothelium is derived directly from intra-embryonic mesenchymal cells."
- 2 an organ in its earliest stage of development; the foundation for subsequent development wordnet
- 3 An allele, a specific version of a gene (as used by Gregor Mendel).
- 4 Temperament, the predominant personality type.
Etymology
From German Anlage.
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