Delamination

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act of splitting or separating a laminate into layers.
  • n. Embryology The splitting of the blastoderm into two layers of cells to form a gastrula.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The separation of the layers of a laminar composite material as a result of repeated stress, or failure of the adhesive
  • n. The formation of a gastrula by the splitting of the blastoderm
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Formation and separation of laminæ or layers; one of the methods by which the various blastodermic layers of the ovum are differentiated.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A splitting apart in layers; a laminar dehiscence: a term specifically applied in embryology to the splitting of a primitively single-layered blastoderm into two layers of cells, thus producing a two-layered germ without invagination, embolism, or proper gastrulation.
    • Word Usage
    "It was also shown that what is called delamination -- the rise of the two primary germinal layers by the folding of the surface of the blastoderm (for instance, in the Geryonidae and other medusae) -- was a secondary formation, due to cenogenetic variations from the original invagination of the blastula."
     
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