Contractile mesodermal midline cells in the ventral midline of annelid embryos that give rise to the axochord. [ https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3308-6245 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25214631 https://github.com/obophenotype/uberon/issues/574 ]
Synonyms: axochord pre-muscle mass
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- pre-muscle condensation
- embryonic tissue
- mesoderm-derived structure
- develops from some mesoderm
- intersects midsagittal plane of some embryo
- part of some embryo
- in taxon some Annelida
- has potential to develop into some axochord