adjective
- relating to or denoting a type of gastrulation in which one layer of cells grows over and encloses another layer during embryonic development
Usage: biology; embryology; technical
Examples
- Epibolic gastrulation is common in fish and amphibian embryos.
- During epibolic development, the animal pole cells expand and spread over the vegetal pole.
- The epibolic process involves the gradual overgrowth of one tissue layer by another.
- In zebrafish, epibolic movements begin shortly after the blastula stage.
- Epibolic ingression is a key mechanism in early vertebrate embryogenesis.