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telolecithal

[ tel-oh-les-uh-thuhl, tee-loh- ]

adjective

Embryology.
  1. having an accumulation of yolk near the vegetal pole, as the large-yolked eggs or ova of reptiles and birds.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of telolecithal1

1875–80; telo- 2 + Greek é쾱ٳ ( os ) yolk + -al 1
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Segmenting unequally; Ð said of telolecithal ova with complete segmentation.

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The Cephalopoda appear to be the only Invertebrates in which the egg is mesoblastic and telolecithal like that of Vertebrata.

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An ovum such as this, in which the protoplasm is concentrated towards one pole, is called telolecithal.

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Telolecithal: eggs with the yelk at one end.

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