neural tube
Noun

neural tube (plural neural tubes)

  1. (anatomy) hollow longitudinal dorsal tube formed in the folding and subsequent fusion of the opposite ectodermal folds in the embryo that gives rise to the brain and spinal cord
Translations
  • Spanish: tubo neural



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