acroblast

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English

Etymology

From acro- +‎ -blast.

Noun

acroblast (plural acroblasts)

  1. (medicine) Material derived from the Golgi apparatus from which the acrosome develops during spermatogenesis.
  2. (medicine, archaic) A type of embryonic cell forming a layer external to the mesoblast.