Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Ectental

Ectental , adjective

[Greek 'ekto`s outside + {not transcribed} inside.]

(Biology) Relating to, or connected with, the two primitive germ layers, the ectoderm and ectoderm; as, the “ectental line” or line of juncture of the two layers in the segmentation of the ovum. — C. S. Minot