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blas·te·ma

(blă-stē′mə)
n. pl. blas·te·mas or blas·te·ma·ta (-mə-tə)
1. A mass of undifferentiated cells from which an organ or a body part develops, either in normal development or in the regeneration of a lost body part.
2. A structureless substance from which it was formerly believed that cells are formed.

[Greek blastēma, offspring, sprout, from blastos, bud.]

blas·te′mal, blas′te·mat′ic (blăs′tə-măt′ĭk), blas·te′mic (blă-stē′mĭk) adj.
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blastema

(blæˈstiːmə)
n, pl -mas or -mata (-mətə)
(Physiology) a mass of undifferentiated animal cells that will develop into an organ or tissue: present at the site of regeneration of a lost part
[C19: from New Latin, from Greek: offspring, from blastos bud]
blastemic adj
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blas•te•ma

(blæˈsti mə)

n., pl. -mas, -ma•ta (-mə tə)
an aggregation of cells in an early embryo capable of differentiation into specialized tissue and organs.
[1840–50; < New Latin < Greek blástēma (blastē- variant s. of blasteîn to sprout + -ma n. suffix of result)]
blas•te′mal, blas•te•mat•ic (ˌblæs təˈmæt ɪk) blas•te′mic (-ˈsti mɪk, -ˈstɛm ɪk) adj.
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Noun 1. blastema - a mass of undifferentiated cells from which an organ or body part develops
cell - (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals
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blas·te·ma

n. blastema, sustancia primaria de la cual se originan las células.
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(51) From the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, the lymph and blastema theories dominated the oncology landscape, contending that cancer was formed by the abnormal movement of fluid throughout the body and by small blastemas between pockets of tissue.
Bradshaw, "Acidic fibroblast growth factor is present in regenerating limb blastemas of axolotls and binds specifically to blastema tissues," Developmental Biology, vol.
She found blastemas, blobs of rapidly dividing immature cells, and evidence that a key protein layer, the extracellular matrix, breaks down, allowing tissues to regrow.
We observed lethality in blastemas regenerated within 5 days when exposed to E2 or BPA at concentrations greater than 1 ppm (data not shown).
Los blastemas cartilaginosos de la clavicula humana aparecen entre las 10 y 12 semanas de gestacion, en el tejido mesenquimatico condensado de los extremos del esbozo clavicular y crecen rapidamente.
When cut in half, the worms form blastemas similar in architecture to those seen when researchers amputate the limbs of a urodele.
This is in contrast to the transplantation methods used in amphibians, in which only the most proximal portions of the limbs or regeneration blastemas were inserted into the body.
Like that of urodeles, the process can be categorized into the following steps: (1) wound closure and healing, (2) formation of wound epidermis, (3) formation of proliferative blastema cells, and (4) cellular differentiation and morphogenesis that leads to tissue restoration (Akimenko et al, 2003; Fig.