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Webster 1913 Edition

Blastema

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Blas-te′ma

,

Noun.

;

pl.

Blastemata

.

[Gr.

βλάστημα

bud, sprout.]

(Biol.)

The structureless, protoplasmic tissue of the embryo; the primitive basis of an organ yet unformed, from which it grows.