Primitive groove

(Anat.)

a depression or groove in the epiblast of the primitive streak. It is not connected with the medullary groove, which appears later and in front of it.

- Shipley.

See also: Primitive

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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