- fertilization cone
- a bulging of the cytoplasm in the oocyte at the site of contact of a spermatozoon, which gradually engulfs the spermatozoon and then retracts, carrying the spermatozoon inward; called also attraction c.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
fertilization cone
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