embryo state

  • 1Embryo drawing — refers to any representation of the illustration of embryos in their developmental sequence. In plants and animals, an embryo develops from a zygote, the single cell that results when an egg and sperm fuse during fertilization. In animals, the… …

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  • 2EMBRYO — (Heb. עֻבָּר, ubbar), a child in the womb of its mother before its head emerges (Sanh. 72b; Sh. Ar., ḤM 425:2), the Hebrew ubbar meaning the unborn child in both the embryonic and fetal stages. Generally speaking, an embryo is incapable of having …

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  • 3Embryo — Em bry*o, n.; pl. {Embryos}. [F. embryon, Gr. e mbryon, perh. fr. ? in (akin to L. ? E. in) + ? to be full of, swell with; perh. akin to E. brew.] (Biol.) The first rudiments of an organism, whether animal or plant; as: (a) The young of an animal …

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  • 4embryo — noun basis for development, beginning, bud, commencement, earliest stage, fetus, first stage, genesis, germ, immature stage, inchoation, incipience, incipient organism, origin, origination, partus, rudiment, rudimentary state, seed, source, start …

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  • 5embryo — noun (plural embryos) Etymology: Medieval Latin embryon , embryo, from Greek embryon, from en + bryein to swell; akin to Greek bryon catkin Date: 1548 1. a. archaic a vertebrate at any stage of development prior to birth or hatching b. an animal… …

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  • 6embryo — noun plural embryos (C) 1 an animal or human that has not yet been born, and is in its first state of development in the mother s body compare foetus 2 in embryo not yet complete, but still developing: His plans were still in embryo …

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  • 7embryo — I. n. 1. Germ, rudiment, embryon. 2. Rudimentary state, first stage, beginning. II. a. Embryotic, embryonic, embryon, embryonal, embryonate, embryous, rudimentary, undeveloped …

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  • 8In embryo — Embryo Em bry*o, n.; pl. {Embryos}. [F. embryon, Gr. e mbryon, perh. fr. ? in (akin to L. ? E. in) + ? to be full of, swell with; perh. akin to E. brew.] (Biol.) The first rudiments of an organism, whether animal or plant; as: (a) The young of an …

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  • 9plastic state — pluripotent state the state of parts of the zygote or very early embryo in which they may develop into any adult tissue or part …

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  • 10rudimentary state — index embryo Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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