mes·o·neph·ros (m z  -nf rs, -r s, ms-)n. The second of the three excretory organs that develop in a vertebrate embryo, becoming the functioning kidney in fish and amphibians but replaced by the metanephros in higher vertebrates. Also called Wolffian body. [meso- + Greek nephros, kidney.] mes o·nephric adj. |
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