blastosphere

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The segmentation is complete; one side of the hollow blastosphere invaginates and forms a gastrula.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various

We naturally assume, from what we have learnt, that the next stages will be the formation of a hollow blastosphere, invagination, a gastrula forming mesoblast by hollow outgrowths from the archenteron, and so on.

From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

The blastosphere, growing beyond its limits, folds into a cup-shaped organism.

From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Hertwig, Oscar

This embryo, resembling a hollow rubber ball filled with fluid, is called a blastosphere.

From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by Tyler, John Mason

If we compare this with the typical blastosphere of the lower type, we see that it is, as it were, flattened out on the yolk.

From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)