💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Pronephros"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| pronephronnoun | (biology) The first part of the urogenital system to be differentiated in a vertebrate embryo, which functions as a simple excretory organ in simpler forms, serves as a provisional kidney in some fish and amphibians, and only appears as a temporary embryonic structure in reptiles, birds, and mammals. |
| forekidneynoun | The pronephros. |
| metanephrosnoun | (anatomy) The most posterior of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in many vertebrates. |
| nephrosnoun | (anatomy) A kidney-like organ. |
| mesonephrosnoun | (biology) The second of the three excretory organs of the developing embryo; the Wolffian body. |
| pyelumnoun | (anatomy) renal pelvis |
| pyelonnoun | (anatomy) Synonym of renal pelvis. |
| archenteronnoun | (anatomy) A primitive alimentary cavity |
| renal pelvisnoun | (anatomy) The funnellike dilated proximal part of the ureter in the kidney. |
| mesonephric restnoun | (medicine, gynaecology) Remnants of the mesonephros in a girl or woman that have persisted past the embryonic stage. |
| praecornunoun | (anatomy) The anterior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain. |
| wolffian bodynoun | The mesonephros and paramesonephrotic blastema. |
| nephrostomenoun | The funnel-shaped opening of a nephridium into the body cavity. |
| paramesonephric ductnoun | (embryology) Synonym of Müllerian duct. |
| proatlasnoun | (anatomy) A bone located between the skull and the atlas (topmost vertebra), found in some reptiles. |
| epipubisnoun | (anatomy) A cartilage or bone in front of the pubis in some amphibians,, reptiles and other animals, including the duck-billed platypus and some extinct mammals. |
| hypapophysisnoun | (anatomy) A process, or other element, of a vertebra developed from the ventral side of the centrum. |
| nephroscopenoun | (surgery) An instrument used to examine the kidney through an inserted tube |
| angulospenialnoun | (amphibians, anatomy) A bone in the lower jaw of amphibians |
| protovertebranoun | (obsolete, anatomy) 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. |
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