| Term: | blood island granulocyte |
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| Note: | This page represents a term created by the combination ("post-composition") of two ontology terms. For more information on the individual terms, click the hyperlinked name. |
| Name: | blood island |
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| Synonyms: | blood islands, caudal hematopoietic tissue, posterior blood island, posterior ICM |
| Definition: | Nests of developing blood cells arising late in the segmentation period from the intermediate mass, and located in the anterior-ventral tail, just posterior to the yolk extension. |
| Ontology: | Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0000094] |
| Name: | granulocyte |
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| Synonyms: | granulocytes |
| Definition: | A leukocyte with abundant granules in the cytoplasm. |
| Ontology: | Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0009048] |