placode

Noun

 * 1)  A platelike thickening of the epithelial layer of an embryo from which an organ, especially a sense organ, develops.
 * 2) * 1978, Charles Russell Bardeen, Irving Hardesty, John Lewis Bremer, Edward Allen Boyden (editors), The Anatomical Record, Volume 191, A. R. Liss, page 450,
 * The neural crest cell bodies become more distant from the placode, but their cell processes permeate the increasingly fibrillar extracellular matrix subjacent to the placode.
 * The neural crest cell bodies become more distant from the placode, but their cell processes permeate the increasingly fibrillar extracellular matrix subjacent to the placode.

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 * Russian: плако́д