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embryologist

[em-bree-ol-uh-jist]

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noun

a specialist in embryology.

Nearby words

Origin of embryologist

First recorded in 1840–50; embryolog(y) + -ist

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Examples from the Web for embryologist

After talking with Samson and an embryologist in India, the couple drove to Chicago to meet with Samson.
Outsourcing Pregnancy|Doree Shafrir|October 11, 2009|DAILY BEAST
Instead, they're found by a social worker at an NGO, according to embryologist Samit Sekhar.
Outsourcing Pregnancy|Doree Shafrir|October 11, 2009|DAILY BEAST
I intend to have no children—it is an embryologist who is speaking.
Life of Elie Metchnikoff, 1845-1916|Olga Metchnikoff
These discoveries were confirmed and extended for the 135chick by the embryologist Huschke, a pupil of Oken.
Form and Function|E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

The embryologist developes its wonders as it makes 'the bones to grow in the womb of her that is with child.'
Lux Mundi|Various
The second birth is scarcely less perplexing to the theologian than the first to the embryologist.
Natural Law in the Spiritual World|Henry Drummond
The explanation of such facts has opened out to the embryologist quite a new series of problems.
The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1|Francis Maitland Balfour

Medicine definitions for embryologist

embryologist

[ĕm′brē-ŏl′ə-jĭst]

n.

A specialist in embryology.

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