verb
- to undergo or cause to undergo gastrulation, the process in embryonic development in which a single layer of cells reorganizes into multiple layers
Usage: biology; developmental biology; technical
Examples
- The embryo begins to gastrulate around the third week of human development.
- During gastrulation, cells migrate inward to form the three primary germ layers.
- Scientists observed how the sea urchin embryo gastrulates under the microscope.
- The blastula must gastrulate to develop into a more complex organism.
- Researchers study how genes control the process as cells gastrulate.