Neural Tube Definition

Neural Tube Sentence Examples

• In the female the same growth of epithelial cords into the mesenchyme of the genital ridge takes place, but each one is Neural tube.

• The primordium of the neurochord (neural or medullary plate) referred to above becomes closed in from the surface by the overgrowth of surrounding epiblast, and its edges also bend up, meet, and finally fuse to form a tube, the medullary or neural tube.

• An important fact to note is that the blastopore is included in this overgrowth of epiblast, so that the neural tube remains for some time in open communication with the archenteron by means of a posterior neurenteric canal.

• It is still longer before the neural tube completes its closure in front, exhibiting a small orifice at the surface, the anterior neuropore.

• To do any less is to unnecessarily put the developing fetus at risk for neural tube birth defects.