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Embryology   /ˌɛmbriˈɑlədʒi/   Listen
Embryology

noun
1.
The branch of biology that studies the formation and early development of living organisms.





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"Embryology" Quotes from Famous Books



... same in the social sciences and the natural sciences. In embryology the celebrated law of Haeckel tells us that the development of the individual embryo reproduces in miniature the various forms of development of the animal species which have preceded it in the zoological series. But the biologist, ...
— Socialism and Modern Science (Darwin, Spencer, Marx) • Enrico Ferri
... VON, a native of Esthonia; professor of zoology, first in Koenigsberg and then in St. Petersburg; the greatest of modern embryologists, styled the "father of comparative embryology"; the discoverer of the law, known by his name, that the embryo when developing resembles those ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood


Words linked to "Embryology" :   embryonic, segmentation, cleavage, germ layer, regulation, teratology, optic cup, biological science, biology, embryologic, eyecup, nidation, implantation


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