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genital ridge

noun

  1. the area in the vertebrate embryo that develops into ovaries in the female and testes in the male.


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And then pretty soon there is something called the genital ridge.

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The wandering cells are caught up in the embryo’s initial folds into three layers, then, following signals sent out by nearby cells, migrate to a structure called the genital ridge, which becomes the testes.

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The genital ridge runs along the inner edge of the mesonephros, with which the testicular tubules become connected.

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