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Meanings of germinal vesicle in English

The enlarged, fluid filled nucleus of a primary oocyte, the development of which is suspended in prophase I of the first meiotic division between embryohood and sexual maturity.

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        In these the original nucleus of the ovum, the germinal vesicle, is lost.
        The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
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        The intracellular localization of germinal vesicle proteins is regulated during early Xenopus development.
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        This embryo is the product of fertilization of a germinal vesicle by a pollen tube.
        Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886
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        The nucleus or germinal vesicle is seen above in the cicatrix or "tread" (b).
        The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
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        This germinal vesicle contains a viscous fluid (the caryolymph).
        The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
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        In the upper part of the yelk is the transparent round germinal vesicle, which corresponds to the nucleus.
        The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
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        We observed that germinal vesicle breakdown (GVBD) in starfish oocytes was significantly inhibited by the pesticides.
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        The ovule is a minute cell with a transparent membrane, within which is the yolk containing the germinal vesicle.
        The Four Epochs of Woman's Life; A Study in Hygiene
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        It has always the same globular shape; the same characteristic membrane; the same transparent germinal vesicle with its dark germinal spot.
        The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
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        A library of hybridoma cell lines has been established which produce monoclonal antibodies against antigens from the germinal vesicle ofXenopus laevis oocytes.
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        As a rule, the formative-yelk (with the germinal vesicle) then usually gathers at one pole and the food-yelk at the other.
        The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
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        Many of the nuclei contain several of these nucleoli (as, for instance, the germinal vesicle of the ova of fishes and amphibia).
        The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
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        With all, as far as is at present known, the germinal vesicle is the same; so that all organisms start from a common origin.
        The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection / Or, the Pr...
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        Special names have been given to these parts of the ovum; the cell-body is called the yelk (vitellus), and the cell-nucleus the germinal vesicle.
        The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
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        The latter parts ( germinal spot and germinal point) have, apparently, a minor importance, in comparison with the other two (the yelk and germinal vesicle).
        The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
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        It contains a mass of viscid nutritive matter-the'yelk'-withinwhich is inclosed a second much more delicate spheroidal bag, called the ' germinal vesicle' (a).
        On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals
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