mesectodermal

Relating to the mesectoderm.

Adjective

  1. Relating to the mesectoderm.
    • Here the mesectodermal substrate was transplanted with the ectoderm, with the result that in four cases out of seven balancers developed, while in the other three development began, but was arrested. - 1904, Ross...
    • The cells then interdigitate to form a single-cell-wide strip that now occupies the ventral midline, the mesectodermal cells. - 1991, Current Topics in Developmental Biology, volume 25, page 38:
    • During neurulation in chick embryos, as the neural folds fuse dorsally, CNC cells delaminate and migrate to generate several cephalic structures that comprise mesectodermal and neural derivatives. - 2015 August 29, “A...

Origin

From mesectoderm + -al.