embryology
Americannoun
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embryologies
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the science dealing with the formation, development, structure, and functional activities of embryos.
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the origin, growth, and development of an embryo.
the embryology of the chick.
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the branch of science concerned with the study of embryos
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the structure and development of the embryo of a particular organism
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According to the report, the embryology laboratory at Al-Basma was hit in early December 2023, reportedly destroying around 4,000 embryos as well as 1,000 sperm samples and unfertilised eggs.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2025
Also named in the suit are In VitroTech Labs, a third-party embryology center, and its parent company, Beverly Sunset Surgical Associates, both owned by Mor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2021
Nipam Patel, an evolutionary and developmental biologist at the Marine Biology Laboratory, first investigated the wings of several such species with his students in an embryology class.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 1, 2021
Researchers attending the MBL embryology course spend six weeks in Woods Hole.
From Nature ● Feb. 23, 2020
Ironically, even though embryology had launched the discipline of modern genetics, the reconciliation between genes and genesis would be a vastly more engaging scientific problem.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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