ectoderm
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Surface ectoderm is a dense sheet of epidermal progenitors, which gives rise to the surface covering of the body, such as skin, and the associated features of teeth, hair and fingernails.
From Science Daily • Mar. 4, 2024
In contrast, high density culturing led to cells that expressed markers for surface ectoderm but not amniotic ectoderm.
From Science Daily • Mar. 4, 2024
After gastrulation, the embryo can be thought of as an onion with three layers: the ectoderm, the mesoderm and the endoderm.
From Science Daily • Sep. 19, 2023
The mesoderm is the third germ layer; it forms between the endoderm and ectoderm in triploblasts.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
The rudiment of the central nervous system has the form of a solid keel-like ingrowth of ectoderm along the mid-dorsal line, which only secondarily becomes hollowed out—just as happens in Teleostean fishes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various
