Standard Lemma guide

mesoderm

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

No pronunciation record was provided for this word.

1

noun

Meaning 1

One of the three tissue layers in the embryo of a metazoan animal, which will produce, through development, many internal organs of the adult, e.g. muscles, spine and the circulatory system.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: embryology, medicine, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

the middle germ layer that develops into muscle and bone and cartilage and blood and connective tissue

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: mesoblast

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: germ layer

Narrower terms: chordamesoderm, chordomesoderm, mesenchyme

History

Etymology

From meso- + -derm.

Across languages

Translations

13 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Esperanto: mezodermo — tissue produced by gastrulation
  • Finnish: mesodermi — tissue produced by gastrulation
  • French: mésoderme — tissue produced by gastrulation
  • German: Mesoderm — tissue produced by gastrulation
  • Hungarian: mezoderma — tissue produced by gastrulation
  • Irish: méisideirm — tissue produced by gastrulation
  • Italian: mesoderma — tissue produced by gastrulation
  • Polish: mezoderma — tissue produced by gastrulation
  • Portuguese: mesoderme — tissue produced by gastrulation
  • Portuguese: mesoderma — tissue produced by gastrulation
  • Romanian: mesoderm — tissue produced by gastrulation
  • Russian: мезоде́рма (mezodérma) — tissue produced by gastrulation
  • Spanish: mesodermo — tissue produced by gastrulation