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Ectoderm

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Noun
  1. 1
    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.
  2. 2
    the outer germ layer that develops into skin and nervous tissue wordnet

Etymology

From ecto- + -derm.

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