morula
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Origin of morula
1855–60; < New Latin, equivalent to Latin mōr ( um ) mulberry + -ula -ule
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At this stage of development, called the morula, there are 30-60 cells.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Sometimes, Ramos can wait for the embryo to become a morula, which looks like a blackberry, or a blastula, which looks like a soccer ball, before transferring the embryo to the woman's uterus.
From Slate ● May 23, 2012
From the community of amœba morula, now arose ciliated larvæ.
From Was Man Created? by Mott, Henry A. (Henry Augustus)
By repeated cleavage of it a morula is formed, and from this a blastula, which changes in a very characteristic way into the greatly modified gastrula.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August
To have some idea of those ancestors of our race that succeeded phylogenetically to the Moraeada, we have only to follow the further embryonic development of the morula.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August
Near the end of my visit, our conversation turned from the theoretical consideration of morulas and blastulas to the specific realities of my own condition and treatment.
From Slate ● May 23, 2012
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