spiral cleavage
spiral cleavage
nounDefinition of SPIRAL CLEAVAGE
: holoblastic cleavage that is typical of protostomes and that is characterized by arrangement of the blastomeres of each upper tier over the cell junctions of the next lower tier so that the blastomeres spiral around the pole to pole axis of the embryo — compare radial cleavage
First Known Use of SPIRAL CLEAVAGE
1892
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