Mesoderm

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One of the three tissue layers in the embryo of a metazoan animal, which will produce, through development, many internal organs of the adult, e.g. muscles, spine and the circulatory system.
  2. 2
    the middle germ layer that develops into muscle and bone and cartilage and blood and connective tissue wordnet

Etymology

From meso- + -derm.

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