Mesonephros Definition

mĕzə-nĕfrəs, -rŏs, mĕs-
noun
The excretory organ serving as the adult kidney of fishes and amphibians and as the embryonic kidney of higher vertebrates: the mesonephros and its duct develop into the epididymis and vas deferens in higher vertebrates.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Mesonephros

Noun

Singular:
mesonephros
Plural:
mesonephroi

Origin of Mesonephros

  • meso– Greek nephros kidney

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Mesonephros Sentence Examples

  • Lying dorsal to the genital ridge in the intermediate cell mass is the mesonephros, consisting FIG.

  • The more complete replacements, such as the nephridia of the genital segment of Tubifex by a subsequently formed genital duct, may be compared with the succession of the nesonephros to the pronephros in vertebrates, and of the metanephros to the mesonephros in the higher vertebrates..

  • From the adjacent mesonephros cords of cells grow into the attached part of the genital ridge, or testis, as it now is, and from these the rete testis is developed.

  • Recent research, however, points to these cords of the rete testis et ovarii as being derived from the coelomic epithelium instead of from the mesonephros.

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Words Starting With

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