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/ˌɛmbɹɪˈɒlədʒi/
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[ US /ˌɛmbɹiˈɑɫədʒi/ ]
[ US /ˌɛmbɹiˈɑɫədʒi/ ]
NOUN
- the branch of biology that studies the formation and early development of living organisms
How To Use embryology In A Sentence
- My generation was raised on a diet of stultifyingly tedious, but worthy accounts of embryology, typically very badly printed on what appeared to be rice paper.
- Advancements in technology would allow for the preservation of samples and the planning of well-designed experiments to study their embryology and development.
- A more recent and equally ambitious synthesis, informally known as evo-devo, has been proposed between theories of evolution (of reproduction and speciation) and theories of development (of formation and growth, such as embryology) (Goodwin, Holder and Wylie 1983; The Unity of Science
- It serves as an important model for vaccine production and the study of embryology and development, as well as for research into the connection between viruses and some types of cancer.
- Consider the two major processes in biology - embryology and evolution - that, as applied to human history, must be expressed as tales of sequential development toward greater complexity.
- This feeling of frustration, so incisively conveyed by these considerations by P. Medawar, pervaded in the forties the field of experimental embryology which had been enthusiastically acclaimed in the mid-thirties, when the upper lip of the amphibian blastopore brought this area of research to the forefront of the biological stage. Nobel Lecture The Nerve Growth Factor: Thirty-Five Years Later
- Coelom-sac: the cavity containing the viscera: in embryology one of a pair of closed sacs, arising in the mesoderm of each segment of the embryo and giving rise to more or less of the coelom of the adult. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
- Haeckel used embryology extensively in his recapitulation theory, which embodied a progressive, almost linear model of evolution.
- They're one of the primary models for embryology and development since they grow inside an egg rather than a mother's uterus, making for easier study.
- Indeed they are, and contemporary human embryology and developmental biology leave no significant room for doubt about it.