differentiated embryo
121human behaviour — Introduction the potential and expressed capacity for physical, mental, and social activity during the phases of human life. Human beings, like other animal species, have a typical life course that consists of successive phases of… …
122nervous system, human — ▪ anatomy Introduction system that conducts stimuli from sensory receptors to the brain and spinal cord and that conducts impulses back to other parts of the body. As with other higher vertebrates, the human nervous system has two main… …
123Stem cell — One of the human body s master cells, with the ability to grow into any one of the body s more than 200 cell types. All stem cells are unspecialized (undifferentiated) cells that are characteristically of the same family type (lineage). They… …
124individuation — 1. Development of the individual from the specific. 2. In jungian psychology, the process by which one s personality is differentiated, developed, and expressed. 3. Regional activity in an embryo as a respon …
125oncosphere — SYN: hexacanth. [onco + G. sphaira, sphere] * * * on·co·sphere also on·cho·sphere äŋ kō .sfi(ə)r n a tapeworm embryo that has six hooks and is the earliest differentiated stage of a cyclophyllidean tapeworm called also hexacanth embryo * * * n.… …
126raphe — The line of union of two contiguous, bilaterally symmetrical structures. SYN: rhaphe. [G. rhaphe, suture, seam] amnionic r. the line of fusion of the amnionic folds over the embryo in reptiles, birds, and certain mammals. r. anococcygea SYN …
127Matrotrophy — is a form of development in which the embryo is supplied with additional nutrition from the mother (e.g. through a placenta). This can be contrasted with lecithotrophy, in which the only source of nutrition for the embryo is yolk originally… …
128Chemotherapy — A woman being treated with docetaxel chemotherapy for breast cancer. Cold mittens and wine coolers are placed on her hands and feet to reduce harm to her nails. Chemotherapy (sometimes cancer chemotherapy) is the treatment of cancer with an… …
