- sympathoblast
- A primitive cell derived from the neural crest glia; with the pheochromoblasts, sympathoblasts enter into the formation of the adrenal medulla and sympathetic ganglia. SYN: sympathetoblast, sympathicoblast. [sympatho- + G. blastos, germ]
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n.one of the small cells formed in the early development of nerve tissue that eventually become the neurones of the sympathetic nervous system.* * *
sym·patho·blast (sim-pathґo-blast″) [sympathetic + -blast1] a pluripotential cell in the embryo that will develop into a sympathetic nerve cell or a chromaffin cell; called also sympathetoblast, sympathicoblast, and sympathetic neuroblast.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
