BLASTEMA

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1854 · p. 4

In Botany, the axis of growth of an embryo;that is to say, the plumula, the radicle, and the par i which connects them, the cotyledons being removed. Blastema. In Anatomy, the homogeneous gelatinous and granular basis of the ovum, in which the organic elements characteristic of the different ti ues are deposited in the earlv stages of development. [s. 164]