Header Logo

Cleavage Stage, Ovum

"Cleavage Stage, Ovum" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

expand / collapse MeSH information
The earliest developmental stage of a fertilized ovum (ZYGOTE) during which there are several mitotic divisions within the ZONA PELLUCIDA. Each cleavage or segmentation yields two BLASTOMERES of about half size of the parent cell. This cleavage stage generally covers the period up to 16-cell MORULA.


expand / collapse publications
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Cleavage Stage, Ovum" by people in this website by year, and whether "Cleavage Stage, Ovum" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.

© 2024 Kaiser Permanente