Crossword-Solution: PRONEPHROS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pronephros | n. | Alt. of Pronephron |
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| a primitive kidney that disappears early in embryonic development | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
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VEINID
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"Delicious!"
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Sentences with PRONEPHROS (5)
From the "Gekröse," or remaining part of the vessel layer develop the Wolffian bodies (_Urnieren_, Pronephros), the kidneys, the sex glands, and the series of "blood-glands"--suprarenals, thyroid, thymus and spleen.
Another difference that appears later is that, while the tadpole has an efficient pronephros, the fowl, which has no larval (free imperfect) stages in its life history, has the merest indication of such a structure.
With the exception of the reduction of the pronephros, what has been said of the development of the frog's nervous system, renal and reproductive organs, and skeleton, applies sufficiently to the fowl for our present purposes.
The more complete replacements, such as the nephridia of the genital segment of _Tubifex_ by a subsequently formed genital duct, may be compared with the succession of the nesonephros to the pronephros in vertebrates, and of the metanephros to the mesonephros in the higher vertebrates.
The first (pronephros) develops just back of the head of the embryo, but does not persist in the adult.