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Definition of Conceptus
1. Noun. 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.
Generic synonyms: Animal, Animate Being, Beast, Brute, Creature, Fauna
Specialized synonyms: Blastosphere, Blastula, Gastrula, Morula
Terms within: Umbilical, Umbilical Cord
Derivative terms: Embryonal, Embryonic, Embryonic, Embryotic
Definition of Conceptus
1. Noun. The fetus or embryo, including all the surrounding tissues protecting and nourishing it during pregnancy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Conceptus
1. a fertilized egg [n -CEPTUSES or -CEPTI]
Medical Definition of Conceptus
1. The product of conception, i.e., embryo and membranes. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conceptus
Literary usage of Conceptus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"The conceptus formalis is the mental act or process itself whereby we get before us
... Since Averroes, Suarez continues, many have called this conceptus ..."
2. The Commentaries of Gaius and Rules of Ulpian by Gaius, Domitius Ulpianus (1885)
"... conceptus est3, licet post tertiam ... et in adoptionem dari potest, at is
qui ex eo filio conceptus est qui in t.ertia ..."
3. The Institutes of Gaius and Rules of Ulpian: The Former from Studemund's by Gaius, Wilhelm Studemund, James Muirhead (1880)
"... conceptus est, licet post tertiam ... et in adoptionem dari potest. at is qui
ex eo filio conceptus est qui in tertia ..."
4. Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic by William Hamilton (1860)
"1T XXXIII. Of notions which stand to each other in the relations of Subordination, —
the one is the nor'' "dX™nr«ior! Higher or Superior (notio, conceptus, ..."
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