Meaning Of The Word Epiboly

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epiboly in American English
the growth of a group of cells around another group, resulting from the more rapid division of the former, as in forming a gastrula
noun: the movement and spreading out of cells into sheets of tissue that overlie or surround other groups of cells, esp. as in the formation of certain gastrulas

epiboly in British English
noun: a process that occurs during gastrulation in vertebrates, in which cells on one side of the blastula grow over and surround the remaining cells and yolk and eventually form the ectoderm

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