- angioblast
- 1. A cell taking part in blood vessel formation. SYN: vasoformative cell. 2. Primordial mesenchymal tissue from which embryonic blood cells and vascular endothelium are differentiated. SYN: angioderm. [angio- + G. blastos, germ]
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1) one of the extraembryonic mesenchyme cells that differentiate into the endothelium of the embryonic blood vessels2) the mesenchymal tissue that gives rise to embryonic blood cells and blood vessels* * *
an·gio·blast (anґje-o-blast″) [angio- + -blast1] 1. the mesenchymal tissue of the embryo from which the blood cells and blood vessels differentiate; called also angioderm. 2. an individual vessel-forming cell; called also vasoformative cell. angioblastic adj
Medical dictionary. 2011.