adjective
(also neurectodermal)
Embryology Of, relating to, or derived from neuroectoderm. Also: designating the demarcation between the ectoderm and neural plate or tube in the early embryo.
Origin
1940s; earliest use found in Quarterly Review of Biology. From neuro- + ectodermal, after neuroectoderm.
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