Look up: embryo

1. embryo
   Type: Term Pronunciation: em′brē-ō Definitions: 1. An organism in the early stages of development. 2. In humans, the developing organism from conception until the end of the eighth month; developmental stages from this time to birth are commonly designated as fetal. 3. A primordial plant within a seed.
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2. embryo
   Once a zygote begins to undergo cellular divisions, it becomes an embryo.
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3. Embryo
   A fertilized ovum, or egg, in the earlier stages of prenatal development, usually prior to development of body parts.
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4. Embryo
   An embryo is a very young, unbo rn organism. Some fossilized dinosaur embryos have been found.
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5. embryo
   Early stages of an animal's development that results when a sperm fertilizes an egg. Embryo cloning produces many calves from one embryo, for example.
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6. Embryo
   An organism in its earliest stage of development usually surrounded by protective tissue e.g. a plant still enclosed in the seed which arises from the zygote.
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7. embryo
   (Variation and inheritance) the developing human offspring inside the womb
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8. embryo
   [Noun] Plural form: embryos. A baby that is still developing in the womb.
   Example: Human embryos develop inside the womb.
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9. embryo
   [n] - a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium 2. [n] - an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life
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10. Embryo
    The name given to a developing infant from about two weeks after conception to the end of the second month of pregnancy, when it is then called a foetus.
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11. embryo
    The medical term for a developing baby during the first ten weeks of pregnancy; after that, it is called a fetus.
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12. Embryo
    Name given to a baby in the first 8 weeks of development in the womb.
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13. Embryo
    A plant at an early stage of development, or a developing organism.
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14. Embryo
    The rudimentary plant within the seed.
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15. Embryo
    This term is applied to the earliest stages of development of a plant or animal. The embryo is generally contained in another structure, the seed, egg, or uterus.
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16. Embryo
    This term is applied to the earliest stages of development of a plant or animal. The embryo is generally contained in another structure, the seed, egg, or uterus.
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17. Embryo
    A young plant or animal before all its organs have started to grow; up to 6-8 weeks in humans
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18. Embryo
    a term used to describe a child in the womb from fertilisation to 8 weeks following fertilisation
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19. Embryo
    An embryo is an unborn baby, from when the female egg is fertilised by the sperm, until the eighth week of pregnancy.
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20. Embryo
    The human product of conception up to the first eight weeks of intrauterine life. The term fetus is used after that.
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21. Embryo
    Embryo: The organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation from fertilization to, in humans, the beginning of the third month of pregnancy. After that point in time, it is termed a fetus. Common Misspellings: embrio, enbrio, ambrio
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22. embryo
    a) an animal in the early stages of development following cleavage of the zygote and ending at birth or hatching; b) the human product of conception up to approximately the end of the second month of pregnancy Category: Medicine • the initial stage of development of a domestic animal of ...
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23. embryo
    The developmental stages of an animal or, in some cases a plant, during which the developing tissue is effectively isolated from the environment by, for example, egg membranes, foetal membranes and various structures in plants.
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24. Embryo
    Em'bry·o noun ; plural Embryos . [ French embryon , Greek 'e`mbryon , perhaps from ... in (akin to Latin ... English in ) + ... to be full of, swell with; perhaps akin to English brew .] (Biol.) Th...
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25. Embryo
    Em'bry·o adjective Pertaining to an embryo; rudimentary; undeveloped; as, an embryo bud.
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