Term Name: blood island
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.
Appears at: Segmentation:26+ somites (22.0h-24.0h)
Evident until: Pharyngula:Prim-5 (24.0h-30.0h)
Ontology: Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0000094]

Relationships
is part of: intermediate cell mass of mesoderm
is a type of: portion of tissue

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