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Epiboly

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epiboly [ə′pib·ə·lē]
(embryology)
The growing or extending of one part, such as the upper hemisphere of a blastula, over and around another part, such as the lower hemisphere, in embryogenesis.
Epiboly 

a method of gastrulation by which cells of the embryo’s animal hemisphere spread through its vegetal hemisphere, the future entoderm (in animals with meroblastic ova, the yolk).
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