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  • 111assisted embryo hatching — embryo hatching treatment of infertility caused by an abnormally thick covering to the egg; using micromanipulation techniques, the fertilized egg is helped to emerge from the covering and implant in the endometrium …

    Medical dictionary

  • 112embryo sac — noun Date: 1844 the female gametophyte of a seed plant consisting of a thin walled sac within the nucellus that contains the egg nucleus and other nuclei which give rise to endosperm on fertilization …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 113embryo- — combining form see embry …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 114Embryo — Embrўo (grch., »Keimgebilde«), der tierische oder pflanzliche Organismus in seiner ersten Entwicklung nach der Zeugung. Der tierische E. [Tafel: Entwicklungsgeschichte I], später, etwa nach dem ersten Drittel der Schwangerschaft, bei Mensch und… …

    Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • 115Embryo, der — Der mbryo, plur. die Embryōnen, aus dem Griechischen, die menschliche oder thierische Frucht, so lange sie noch in dem Leibe der Mutter verschlossen ist …

    Grammatisch-kritisches Wörterbuch der Hochdeutschen Mundart

  • 116embryo — developmental stages to the moment of hatching or of birth. Fish have endogenous nutrition from yolk, or via a specialised absorptive organ depending on ovarian secretions, or via a combination of both these methods …

    Dictionary of ichthyology

  • 117embryo — n.; pl. embryos [Gr. embryon, fetus] A young organism before emerging from the egg, or the body of the mother …

    Dictionary of invertebrate zoology

  • 118embryo — 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 …

    Dictionary of molecular biology

  • 119embryo —    A developing individual before its birth or hatching [23] …

    Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology

  • 120EMBRYO —    the scientific term for the young of an animal while yet in the initial stage of development in the womb; also applied to the plant in its rudimentary stage within the seed …

    The Nuttall Encyclopaedia