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inner cell mass
(redirected from embryoblast)

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inner cell mass [¦in·ər ′sel ‚mas]
(embryology)
The cells at the animal pole of a blastocyst which give rise to the embryo and certain extraembryonic membranes.
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Week 3 By the time the zygote has reached the uterus it has formed a blastocyst, a collection of 500 or more cells with an inner mass called the embryoblast, which subsequently becomes the embryo, and an outer shell of cells called the trophoblast, which forms the placenta.
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