Anlage

Quick meaning: Anlage is a noun meaning (biology) A primordium, the initial clustering of embryonic cells from which a body part develops.

Meaning

(biology) A primordium, the initial clustering of embryonic cells from which a body part develops.

More Meanings

1. (genetics) An allele, a specific version of a gene (as used by Gregor Mendel).
2. (psychology) Temperament, the predominant personality type.

Example Sentences

Moreover, most species have a cirral pattern which - at least partially - closely resembles that of 18-cirri hypotrichs, including the formation from six (I-VI) anlagen.

Stockard has shown that, not only do anesthetics arrest the development of the intra-embryonic blood vessels in the embryos of Fundulus, at an early ontogenetic stage, but in such a manner that no doubt can now exist that, under normal conditions, these vessels are formed in situ by a concrescence of independent and discontinuous anlagen, and that their endothelium is derived directly from intra-embryonic mesenchymal cells.

Word Forms

• anlages
• anlagen

Synonyms for anlage

Depending on context, synonyms include primordium.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include primordium, segment, germogen, germ, parablast, proembryo.

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