ectoderm

English

Etymology

ecto- +‎ -derm

Noun

ectoderm (plural ectoderms)

1. (biology) Outermost of the three tissue layers in the embryo of a metazoan animal. Through development, it will produce the epidermis (skin) and nervous system of the adult.

Translations

tissue layer in the embryo

• Catalan: ectoderma (ca) m
• Finnish: ektodermi (fi)
• French: ectoderme (fr) m
• Hungarian: ektoderma
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: ectoderma (it) f
• Portuguese: ectoderme f
• Russian: эктоде́рма (ru) f (ektodérma)
• Spanish: ectodermo m

See also

• endoderm
• mesoderm