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Definition of Embryonic

1. Adjective. Of an organism prior to birth or hatching. "Embryologic development"

2. Adjective. In an early stage of development. "An embryonic nation, not yet self-governing"

Definition of Embryonic

1. a. Of or pertaining to an embryo; embryonal; rudimentary.

Definition of Embryonic

1. Adjective. (embryology) Of or relating to an embryo. ¹

2. Adjective. (figuratively) Something, especially a project, that is very new and is still evolving; something that has yet to reach its full potential. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Embryonic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Embryonic

1. Undeveloped, related to the embryo. (16 Dec 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Embryonic

embryonal embryonal adenoma embryonal area embryonal carcinoma embryonal carcinosarcoma embryonal leukaemia embryonal medulloepithelioma embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma embryonal rhabdosarcoma embryonal tumour

embryonal tumour of ciliary body embryonary embryonate embryonated embryones embryonic (current term) embryonic axis embryonic blastoderm embryonic cell embryonic circulation

embryonic disk embryonic haemoglobin embryonic induction embryonic membrane embryonic shield embryonic stem-cell research embryonic structures embryonic tissue embryonical

Literary usage of Embryonic

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

1. The Early Embryology of the Chick by Bradley Merrill Patten (1920)
"Distal to the body'of the embryo the layers are termed extra-embryonic. At first the body of the chick has no definite boundaries and consequently embryonic ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1900)
"Only while the embryo consists of a few cells can we regard these cells as embryonic tissues in the sense that all are nearly alike: at a later stage the ..."

3. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1899)
"The Formation of the embryonic Rudiment and the embryonic Integuments. ... The embryonic rudiment in the Insecta, as is often the case in the Arthropoda, ..."

4. An introduction to pathology and morbid anatomy by Thomas Henry Green (1881)
"This tissue is obviously precisely similar to embryonic tissue. In some cases the protoplasm continues to increase and the nuclei to divide without any ..."

5. Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems by August Weismann, Edward Bagnall Poulton, Selmar Schöland, Arthur Everett Shipley (1889)
"Many writers appear to consider it a matter of course that any embryonic cell can reproduce the entire organism, if placed under suitable conditions. ..."

6. The Riddle of the Universe at the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1900)
"Yet it is only seventy years since the embryologist Baer pointed out the correct means and methods for penetrating into the mysteries of embryonic life; ..."

7. A German-English dictionary of terms used in medicine and the allied sciences by Hugo Lang, Bertram Abrahams (1905)
"... n. germinating centre Keim-epithel, n. germinal or embryonic epithelium ... germ-development embryonic epithelial cell Keim - fähig, a. capable of ..."

8. Evolution and Animal Life: An Elementary Discussion of Facts, Processes by David Starr Jordan, Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1907)
"Thus the development of some animals is almost wholly embryonic development—that is, development within the egg or in the body of the mother—while the ..."

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