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Embryology

noun

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

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"Embryology" Quotes from Famous Books

... Huxley made it, not allowing the evidence brought before his reason to be swamped by preconceived ideas. At the time he did no more than to make the comparison. It was much later that the full importance of it became known, when more extended work on the embryology of vertebrates and of the different groups of the invertebrates had made it plain that the two foundation-membranes of Huxley occur in all animals from the Medusae up to man. In the group of Coelenterata the organisation remains throughout life as nothing more than a folding in and folding ...

— Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work • P. Chalmers Mitchell

... quiet, broad-faced South German woman, about forty or a little more, sat close by, busily translating a scientific book into English by alternate reading and consultation with her father. Harry saw the title on her page was 'Researches into the Embryology of the Isopodal Crustaceans,' and conceived at once an immense respect for the learning and wisdom of the communist exile's daughter. Herr Schurz hardly stopped a moment from his work—he never allowed his numerous ...

— Philistia • Grant Allen

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