Delamination

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  • noun. The act of splitting or separating a laminate into layers.
  • noun. The splitting of the blastoderm into two layers of cells to form a gastrula.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A splitting apart in layers; a laminar dehiscence: a term specifically applied in embryology to the splitting of a primitively single-layered blastoderm into two layers of cells, thus producing a two-layered germ without invagination, embolism, or proper gastrulation.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Formation and separation of laminæ or layers; one of the methods by which the various blastodermic layers of the ovum are differentiated.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The separation of the layers of a laminar composite material as a result of repeated stress, or failure of the adhesive
  • noun. The formation of a gastrula by the splitting of the blastoderm