embryo
In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes…In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus.
» The cloning of human embryos is prohibited by law.
Das Klonen menschlicher Embryos ist gesetzlich verboten.
Клонирование человеческих эмбрионов запрещено законом.
Meaning
6 sensesIn the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus.
Embryo
эмбрио́нembrión, заро́дышzaródyš
ембріо́нembrión, заро́докzaródok
An organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis.
эмбрио́нembrión, заро́дышzaródyš
ембріо́нembrión, заро́докzaródok
In a viviparous animal, the young animal's earliest stages in the mother's body.
эмбрио́нembrión, заро́дышzaródyš
In a human, usually the cell growth of the child within the mother's body, through the end of the seventh week of pregnancy.
эмбрио́нembrión, заро́дышzaródyš
A rudimentary plant contained in the seed.
заро́дышzaródyš
(botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium
(figuratively)The beginning; the first stage of anything.
Examples
10 sentencesThe cloning of human embryos is prohibited by law.
ruКлонирование человеческих эмбрионов запрещено законом.
deDas Klonen menschlicher Embryos ist gesetzlich verboten.
The embryos and fetuses of all mammals look quite similar.
ruЭмбрионы и зародыши всех млекопитающих очень похожи.
deDie Embryonen und Föten aller Säugetiere ähneln einander sehr.
A developing embryo connects to the placenta via the umbilical cord.
The embryo's cells respond differently depending on how many morphogens reach them.
The point at which an embryo becomes a fetus has apparently been chosen arbitrarily.
Translations
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Origin
Borrowed from Medieval Latin embryō, from Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (émbruon, “fetus”), from ἐBorrowed from Medieval Latin embryō, from Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (émbruon, “fetus”), from ἐν (en, “in-”) + βρύω (brúō, “to grow, swell”).
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Forms
plural: embryos / embryonesSynonyms
2 synonyms- 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:conceptusfertilized egg