Word Meanings - EMBRYOLOGY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The science which relates to the formation and development of the embryo in animals and plants; a study of the gradual development of the ovum until it reaches the adult stage.

Related words: (words related to EMBRYOLOGY)

• EMBRYO SAC
  See EMBRYONIC
• EMBRYOTOMY
  The cutting a fetus into pieces within the womb, so as to effect its removal.
• EMBRYON
  See EMBRYO
• STAGERY
  Exhibition on the stage.
• ADULTERATION
  1. The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture. The shameless adulteration of the coin. Prescott. 2. An adulterated state or product.
• ADULTERY
  The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery. (more info) 1. The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman
• EMBRYOGRAPHY
  The general description of embryos.
• DEVELOPMENT
  The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization. The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another
• ADULT
  Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age.
• ADULTER
  To commit adultery; to pollute. B. Jonson.
• EMBRYOTROPH
  The material from which an embryo is formed and nourished.
• ADULTERIZE
  To commit adultery. Milton.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• ADULTEROUS
  1. Guilty of, or given to, adultery; pertaining to adultery; illicit. Dryden. 2. Characterized by adulteration; spurious. "An adulterous mixture." Smollett.
• GRADUAL
  Proceeding by steps or degrees; advancing, step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly progressive; slow; as, a gradual increase of knowledge; a gradual decline. Creatures animate with gradual life Of growth, sense,
• EMBRYOPLASTIC
  Relating to, or aiding in, the formation of an embryo; as, embryoplastic cells.
• EMBRYONATE; EMBRYONATED
  In the state of, or having, an embryonal.
• EMBRYOLOGIST
  One skilled in embryology.
• UNTIL
  1. To; unto; towards; -- used of material objects. Chaucer. Taverners until them told the same. Piers Plowman. He roused himself full blithe, and hastened them until. Spenser. 2. To; up to; till; before; -- used of time; as, he staid until evening;
• EMBRYONIC
  Of or pertaining to an embryo; embryonal; rudimentary. Embryonic sac or vesicle , the vesicle within which the embryo is developed in the ovule; -- sometimes called also amnios sac, and embryonal sac.
• MALCONFORMATION
  Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.
• PROEMBRYO
  The series of cells formed in the ovule of a flowering plant after fertilization, but before the formation of the embryo. The primary growth from the spore in certain cryptogamous plants; as, the proembryo, or protonema, of mosses.
• DEFORMATION
  1. The act of deforming, or state of anything deformed. Bp. Hall. 2. Transformation; change of shape.
• PRESCIENCE
  Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards.
• NONDEVELOPMENT
  Failure or lack of development.
• CHILD STUDY
  A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood.
• MONEMBRYONY
  The condition of an ovule having but a single embryo. -- Mon*em`bry*on"ic, a.
• WASTAGE
  Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.
• INEMBRYONATE
  Not embryonate.