embryo
the young of a viviparous animal, especially of a mammal, in the early stages of development within the womb, in humans up to the end of the second month.: Compare fetus.
the rudimentary plant usually contained in the seed.
any multicellular animal in a developmental stage preceding birth or hatching.
the beginning or rudimentary stage of anything: He charged that the party policy was socialism in embryo.
Origin of embryo
1Words Nearby embryo
Other definitions for embryo- (2 of 2)
a combining form representing embryo in compound words: embryology.
- Also especially before a vowel, embry-.
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How to use embryo in a sentence
A female-founded Israeli startup called Embryonics is setting out to change this by using artificial intelligence to screen embryos.
How an Israeli Startup Is Using AI to Help People Make Babies | Vanessa Bates Ramirez | January 27, 2021 | Singularity HubGene changes, or mutations, seen in the newly studied twins suggest that embryos don’t split neatly in half when twins form.
Some identical twins don’t have the exact same DNA | Tina Hesman Saey | January 22, 2021 | Science News For StudentsOf those, 38 pairs were genetic duplicates of each other, but most had some differences in DNA that probably arose very early in development, either just before one embryo split to form two or shortly after the split.
Because the mother worm contributes the same number of proteins to every embryo, small embryos have high concentrations of proteins and large embryos have low concentrations.
A Newfound Source of Cellular Order in the Chemistry of Life | Viviane Callier | January 7, 2021 | Quanta MagazineIn any case, Keenan said he’s confident that the 27-year-old embryo will not be the oldest ever brought to a live birth.
Meet Molly, the baby who came from an embryo frozen when her mom was a year old | Marisa Iati | December 3, 2020 | Washington Post
Three years later Sophia goes back to the clinic, where they repeat the IVF process and transfer a single normal female embryo.
Almost all 35 to 39-year-old women—92 percent—had at least one normal embryo to transfer after a single IVF cycle.
It is this uncertainty that drives many religious objectors: they protest if there is any chance an embryo could be harmed.
Why Can’t the FDA Fix Outdated Birth Control Labels? | Tiffany Stanley | March 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance role was in the embryo stage.
Doctors bypass the tubes and place the embryo right in the womb.
IVF for Just $300 Could Be a Reality Soon | Randi Hutter Epstein | August 31, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe embryo can be located by the commotion which its active motion produces among the corpuscles.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddThey are asymmetrically oval, about 50 in length, and often contain a partially developed embryo.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddAnd, lastly, that at the apex of the nucleus the radicle of the future embryo would constantly be found.
On these grounds my opinion respecting the embryo of Cephalotus was formed.
In such cases the external umbilicus alone affords a certain indication of the position of the future embryo.
British Dictionary definitions for embryo
/ (ˈɛmbrɪˌəʊ) /
an animal in the early stages of development following cleavage of the zygote and ending at birth or hatching
the human product of conception up to approximately the end of the second month of pregnancy: Compare fetus
a plant in the early stages of development: in higher plants, the plumule, cotyledons, and radicle within the seed
an undeveloped or rudimentary state (esp in the phrase in embryo)
something in an early stage of development: an embryo of an idea
Origin of embryo
1Derived forms of embryo
- embryoid, adjective
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Scientific definitions for embryo
[ ĕm′brē-ō′ ]
An animal in its earliest stage of development, before all the major body structures are represented. In humans, the embryonic stage lasts through the first eight weeks of pregnancy. In humans, other placental mammals, and other viviparous animals, young born as embryos cannot thrive. In marsupials, the young are born during the embryonic stage and complete their development outside the uterus, attached to a teat within the mother's pouch.
The developing young of an egg-laying animal before hatching.
The sporophyte of a plant in its earliest stages of development, such as the miniature, partially developed plant contained within a seed before germination.
Other words from embryo
- embryonic adjective (ĕm′brē-ŏn′ĭk)
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Cultural definitions for embryo
[ (em-bree-oh) ]
Notes for embryo
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