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anlage

[ ahn-lah-guh ]

noun

(sometimes initial capital letter)
plural anlagen anlages.
  1. Embryology. an embryonic area capable of forming a structure: the primordium, germ, or bud.
  2. Psychology. an inherited predisposition to certain traits or to a particular character development.


anlage

/ ˈæ²ÔËŒ±ôÉ‘ËÉ¡É™ /

noun

  1. another word for primordium
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of anlage1

1890–95; < German Anlage foundation, basis, as noun derivative of anlegen to lay on or out, apply, equivalent to an- on + legen to lay 1
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of anlage1

German: predisposition, layout
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Hatchlings flex the plastron chiefly in the region of the humeropectoral seam, rather than at the anlage of the transverse hinge.

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Rudiment, used here as a translation for the word anlage, which means the first plotting-out or beginning of a living structure.

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Once I saw enacted above ground, and in the light of day, something which may have had its roots in an anlage of divine discontent.

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As this groove is followed caudad its ventral wall is seen to become much thickened, tg, to form the anlage of the thyroid gland.

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When the embryos were studied the one-eyed condition was found to result from the union or fusion of the 'anlagen' of the two eyes.

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