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Pronephros

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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.
forekidneynounThe 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 bodynounThe mesonephros and paramesonephrotic blastema.
nephrostomenounThe 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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