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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD WOLFFIAN BODY

Named after K. F. Wolff (1733–94), German embryologist.
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PRONUNCIATION OF WOLFFIAN BODY

Wolffian body  [ˈvɒlfɪən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WOLFFIAN BODY

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conjunction
determiner
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Wolffian body is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES WOLFFIAN BODY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Mesonephros

The mesonephros is one of three excretory organs that develop in vertebrates. It serves as the main excretory organ of aquatic vertebrates and as a temporary kidney in reptiles, birds, and mammals. The mesonephros is included in the Wolffian body after Caspar Friedrich Wolff who described it in 1759.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WOLFFIAN BODY


Christadelphian
ˌkrɪstəˈdɛlfɪən
Delphian
ˈdɛlfɪən
didelphian
daɪˈdɛlfɪən
epitaphian
ˌɛpɪˈtæfɪən
Falstaffian
fɔːlˈstɑːfɪən
firn
fɪən
gumphion
ˈɡʌmfɪən
Memphian
ˈmɛmfɪən
monodelphian
ˌmɒnəʊˈdelfɪən
Morphean
mɔːˈfɪən
nymphal
ˈnɪmfɪən
ornithodelphian
ˌɔːnɪθəˈdɛlfɪən
Orphean
ˈɔːfɪən
Paphian
ˈpeɪfɪən
Riffian
ˈrɪfɪən
Rifian
ˈrɪfɪən
ruffian
ˈrʌfɪən
saffian
ˈsæfɪən
sharifian
ʃəˈriːfɪən
Tartufian
tɑːˈtʊfɪən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WOLFFIAN BODY

Wolf-Ferrari
Wolf-Rayet star
wolf-whistle
wolfberry
Wolfe
Wolfenden Report
Wolfensohn
wolfer
wolffish
wolfhound
wolfish
wolfishly
wolfishness
Wolfit
wolfkin
wolflike
wolfling
wolfram
Wolfram von Eschenbach

WORDS THAT END LIKE WOLFFIAN BODY

all-metal body
black body
body
celestial body
ciliary body
fat body
food body
foreign body
fruiting body
governing body
grey body
heavenly body
inclusion body
lifting body
parent body
polar body
review body
ruling body
statutory body
upper body
vitreous body

Synonyms and antonyms of Wolffian body in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Wolffian body» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

沃尔夫体
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cuerpo de Wolff
570 millions of speakers

English

Wolffian body
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Wolffian शरीर
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

جسم وولف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Вольфианская тела
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

corpo de Wolff
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

উলফিয়ান শরীর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

corps de Wolff
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Badan Wolffian
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Wolffschen Körper
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ウォルフ体
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

Wolffian 몸
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Wolffian body
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

cơ thể Wolff
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வோல்ஃபியான் உடல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Wolffian शरीर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Vücut ceseti
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

corpo di Wolff
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ciało Wolffa
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вольфианской тіла
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

corp Wolffian
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Wolffian σώμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Wolffian liggaam
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

wolffska kropp
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Wolffian kroppen
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Wolffian body

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WOLFFIAN BODY»

Discover the use of Wolffian body in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Wolffian body and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Frog: An Introduction To Anatomy, Histology And Embryology
The Wolffian tubules rapidly increase in number ; they also branch freely, and so give rise to a complicated system of glandular tubules, which, when bound together by bloodvessels and connective tissue, form the Wolffian body or kidney of ...
F.W. Gamble, 1999
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The Strategy of Life: Teleology and Mechanics in ...
Muller relied upon this sort of reasoning to immediately dispose of the notion that the Wolffian body is the source of the kidneys. He pointed out that in salamanders which remain in a larval condition for a relatively long period, the kidneys ...
Timothy Lenoir, 1989
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What Genes Can't Do
Wolffian body, and demonstrating the absence of material continuity between the Wolffian body and the nascent kidney in chicks, mammals, and humans, Miiller, employing an analogical manner of reasoning combined with structural analysis,  ...
Lenny Moss, 2004
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Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Physiological ...
In the upper specimen, which is a male, the supra-renal body, kidney, Wolffian body and testis are seen in their natural relative positions : the testis is removed on the right side, and the small vascular plexuses, analogous to the Malpighian ...
‎1840
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Catalogue of the Contents of the Museum of the Royal College ...
In the upper specimen, which is a male, the supra-renal body, kidney, Wolffian body and testis are seen in their natural relative positions : the testis is removed on the right side, and the small vascular plexuses, analogous to the Malpighian ...
‎1838
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Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Physiological ...
remainder of the vas deferens which is continued to the anterior extremity of the Wolffian body ; most of the branches thus sent off from the vas deferens terminate and are lost in the Wolffian body, but others are continued across the anterior ...
Royal College of Surgeons of England. Museum, Sir Richard Owen, 1838
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The cyclopaedia of anatomy and physiology
It runs along the outer side of the Wolffian body, while its infundibulum, which is soon distinguishable, extends beyond and is entirely separate from that body. The oviducts appear from the first in the form of white cylinders on both sides.
Robert Bentley Todd, 1859
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The Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology: DIA-INS
Hoth of these mistakes will be the more apt to be committed if the original excretory duct of * See hn eecnnd caso in the fulm and those of tie two adulu in a preceding page. the Wolffian body remains, for it may give the appearance of the  ...
Robert Bentley Todd, 1839
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The Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology
That the parovarium is formed out of the Wolffian body does not now appear to admit of doubt. It has been usually considered that the Wolffian bodies are organs peculiar to foetal life, and that they afterwards entirely disappear in both sexes.
Robert Bentley Todd, 1859
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Practical Urology: Essential Principles and Practice: ...
Basic to normal renal development is the presence of a urogenital ridge – also known as the Wolffian body (see Fig. 1.1). It contains the nephric, gonadal, and genital ductal primordia. Within this urogenital ridge, three distinct and Figure 1.1.
Christopher R. Chapple, William D. Steers, 2011

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