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cardiac jelly

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jelly /jel·ly/ (jel´e) a soft substance that is coherent, tremulous, and more or less translucent; generally, a colloidal semisolid mass.
cardiac jelly  a gelatinous substance present between the endothelium and myocardium of the embryonic heart, which transforms into the connective tissue of the endocardium.
contraceptive jelly  a nongreasy jelly used in the vagina for prevention of conception.
petroleum jelly  petrolatum.
Wharton's jelly  the intracellular mucoid connective tissue of the umbilical cord.

cardiac jelly
n.
The gelatinous noncellular material between the endothelial lining and the myocardial layer of the heart in very young embryos, later serving as a substratum for cardiac mesenchyme.

jelly
a soft, coherent, resilient substance; generally, a colloidal semisolid mass.

cardiac jelly
a gelatinous substance present between the endothelium and myocardium of the embryonic heart that transforms into the connective tissue of the endocardium.
Wharton's jelly
the soft, jelly-like intracellular substance of the umbilical cord.


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The team reported experiments demonstrating that chick-embryo endothelial cells placed atop a gel layer in a petri dish broke away from their neighbors and started to travel into the gel when exposed to adherons isolated from the cardiac jelly of embryonic chick hearts.
 
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