embryologist
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of embryologist
First recorded in 1840–50; embryolog(y) + -ist
Example Sentences
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"When an embryologist looks down the microscope, what they see is just this complete mess - a starscape of cells," he says.
From BBC • Sep. 6, 2023
In the 1940s, however, embryologist Gerhard Fankhauser tested this idea by using cells with extra chromosomes that made them grow larger than their usual size.
From Scientific American • May 31, 2023
One Ukrainian embryologist has estimated that before the war, roughly 3,200 implantations were performed in the country each year — creating, through the fees and also the associated tourism, a new, thriving economic sector.
From New York Times • May 3, 2022
"I'm not an embryologist," said Anna Dostálová, Medistella's co-founder, "but I can help to explain how it works in my point of view, which sometimes the patients understand better."
From Salon • Aug. 22, 2020
In 1883, with rather grim determination, the German embryologist August Weismann had performed an experiment that directly attacked Darwin's gemmule theory of heredity.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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