blastosphere
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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
The earliest one-celled protozoa were probably succeeded by many- celled animals of the type of the blastosphere, and these by gastrula-like organisms.
From The Elements of Geology by Norton, William Harmon
The blastosphere of the frog is like what the blastosphere of amphioxus would be, if the future hypoblast cells were enormously larger through their protoplasm being diluted with yolk.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
The cells of the lower half of the blastosphere are slightly larger than those of the upper half.
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)
