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Embryology   Listen
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Embryology  n.  (Biol.) 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.






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"Embryology" Quotes from Famous Books



... reverse. It is often a disguise thrown over repressed sexual interest and sexual preoccupations. It appears to be decreasing among the better educated of the younger generation. The study of biology, and especially of embryology, is an easy and simple way of disintegrating the "impurity complex". "Purity" in the sense of ignorance and suppressed curiosity is a highly dangerous state of mind. And such purity in alliance with prudery and defensive hypocrisy makes any honest discussion ...
— The Mind in the Making - The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform • James Harvey Robinson

... Here, when subjected to the required conditions, this minute and apparently insignificant particle of living matter becomes animated by a new and mysterious activity. The germinal vesicle and spot cease to be discernible (their precise fate being one of the yet unsolved problems of embryology), but the yelk becomes circumferentially indented, as if an invisible knife had been drawn round it, and thus appears divided into two ...
— On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals • Thomas H. Huxley



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



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