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. - HOSTAGE
A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released. Your hostages I have, so have you mine; And we shall talk before