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noun

Embryology.

  1. a diagram or series of diagrams indicating the later structures or adult parts that develop from specific regions of an embryo or egg cortex.

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Genetic approaches to fate map the contributions of cancer cells to tumour growth in mice have provided evidence to support the cancer stem-cell model in some contexts, and evidence against the model in others.

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