See Also: metanephros(medicine)
metanephros(dictionary)

metanephros (iou)



metanephros noun. . L19.
[from META- + Greek nephros kidney.]
Zoology & Anatomy. The third of the three segments of the embryonic kidney in vertebrates, which develops into the kidney and ureter in adult reptiles, birds, and mammals but disappears in lower animals. Cf. MESONEPHROS, PRONEPHROS.
metanephric adjective L19.