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The germinal membrane in an ovum, from which the embryo is developed.

Of or pertaining to the blastoderm.

A day (December 28) observed by mass or festival in commemoration of the children slain by Herod at Bethlehem; -- called also Holy Innocent's Day.

An alderman. [Obs.]

One of the Echinodermata.

Relating or belonging to the echinoderms.

mal kingdom. By many writers it was formerly included in the Radiata. [Written also Echinoderma.]

Relating to Echinodermata; echinodermal.

The outer layer of the blastoderm; epiblast.

Of or relating to the ectoderm.

Endermic.

Acting through the skin, or by direct application to the skin. Endermic method, that in which the medicine enters the system through the skin, being applied either to the sound skin, or to the surface denuded of the cuticle by a blister.

By the endermic method; as, applied endermically.

The innermost layer of the blastoderm and the structures derived from it; the hypoblast; the entoblast. See Illust. of Ectoderm.

Of or pertaining to the endoderm.

A layer of cells forming a kind of cuticle inside of the proper cortical layer, or surrounding an individual fibrovascular bundle.

Applied to the skin without friction; -- said of medicines.

See Endoderm, and Illust. of Blastoderm.

Relating to the entoderm.

The epidermis.