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buccopharyngeal membrane

noun

Medical Definition of BUCCOPHARYNGEAL MEMBRANE

:  a membrane in an early embryo composed of ectoderm and endoderm and separating the head end of the gut from the stomodeum—called also oral membrane, oral plate, pharyngeal membrane

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