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Conceptus

noun
1.
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.  Synonyms: embryo, fertilized egg.





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... creed of our modern philosophers, nothing is deemed a clear conception, but what is representable by a distinct image. Thus the conceivable is reduced within the bounds of the picturable. Hinc patet, qui fiat, ut cum irrepraesentabile et impossibile vulgo ejusdem significatus habeantur, conceptus tam continui, quam infiniti, a plurimis rejiciantur, quippe quorum, secundum leges cognitionis intuitivae, repraesentatio est impossibilis. Quanquam autem harum e non paucis scholis explosarum notionum, praesertim prioris, causam hic non gero, maximi tamen ...
— Biographia Literaria • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Words linked to "Conceptus" :   animate being, fertilized egg, umbilical, umbilical cord, blastula, morula, embryo, creature, fauna, beast, blastosphere, brute, gastrula, animal


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