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conceptus vs gastrula

gastrula vs conceptus

conceptus and gastrula both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
conceptus Yes No No No
gastrula Yes No No No
As nouns, gastrula is a hyponym of conceptus; that is, gastrula is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than conceptus:
  • conceptus: an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life
  • gastrula: double-walled stage of the embryo resulting from invagination of the blastula; the outer layer of cells is the ectoderm and the inner layer differentiates into the mesoderm and endoderm
Other hyponyms of conceptus include blastosphere, blastula, morula.
conceptus (noun) gastrula (noun)
an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life double-walled stage of the embryo resulting from invagination of the blastula; the outer layer of cells is the ectoderm and the inner layer differentiates into the mesoderm and endoderm
Difference between conceptus and gastrula

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