protovertebra (English, noun)
expansion: protovertebra (plural protovertebrae)
Senses:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the primitive masses, or segments, into which the mesoblast of the vertebrate embryo breaks up on either side of the anterior part of the notochord; a mesoblastic, or protovertebral, somite.
tags: obsolete
Forms:
form: protovertebrae
tags: plural