page_title: Mesonephros
hierarchical_section_title: Mesonephros
caption_attribution_description: Reconstruction of a human embryo of 17 mm. (After Mall.)
context_page_description: The mesonephros is one of three excretory organs that develop in vertebrates. It serves as the main excretory organ of aquatic vertebrates and as a temporary kidney in reptiles, birds, and mammals. The mesonephros is included in the Wolffian body after Caspar Friedrich Wolff who described it in 1759.
context_section_description: The mesonephros (Greek: middle kidney) is one of three excretory organs that develop in vertebrates. It serves as the main excretory organ of aquatic vertebrates and as a temporary kidney in reptiles, birds, and mammals. The mesonephros is included in the Wolffian body after Caspar Friedrich Wolff who described it in 1759. (The Wolffian body is composed of: mesonephros + paramesonephrotic blastema)
caption: Reconstruction of a human embryo of 17 mm. (Label for Mesonephros is at center right.)
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