Definition of Embryoid

1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or resembling an embryo ¹

2. Noun. An embryonic organism, grown in vitro from a few cells ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Embryoid

1. a mass of tissue that resembles an embryo [n -S]

Medical Definition of Embryoid

1. Resembling an embryo or a foetus. Synonym: embryoid, embryoniform. Origin: embryo-+ G. Eidos, appearance (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Embryoid

embryo resorption
embryo sac
embryo technology
embryo transfer
embryoblast
embryocardia
embryogeneses
embryogenesis
embryogenetic
embryogenic
embryogenically
embryogenies
embryogeny
embryogony
embryography
embryoid (current term)
embryoids
embryoless
embryolike
embryologic
embryological
embryologically
embryologies
embryologist
embryologists
embryology
embryoma
embryoma of the kidney
embryomorphous
embryon

Literary usage of Embryoid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Neoplastic Diseases: A Treatise on Tumors by James Ewing (1922)
"(2) Teratoid, embryoid, or Mixed Tumors.—A large proportion of testicular tumors are composed of more or less embryonal structures, derived from all three ..."

2. Clinical surgical diagnosis for students and practitioners by Fritz de Quervain (1913)
"It is important to distinguish cancer and sarcoma from the swellings described by Wilms as embryoid tumours, which are derived from all the three layers of ..."

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