Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The modified blastula that is characteristic of placental mammals.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The germinal vesicle. N. E. D. See
blastoderm .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) The germinal vesicle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biology The
mammalian blastula
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the blastula of a placental mammal in which some differentiation of cells has occurred
Etymologies
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Examples
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Who gets to decide if a blastocyst is a child or not?
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I know that a fetus, embryo or blastocyst is not a baby … or a person, they just have the potential to become one.
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I know that a fetus, embryo or blastocyst is not a baby … or a person, they just have the potential to become one.
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I know that a fetus, embryo or blastocyst is not a baby … or a person, they just have the potential to become one.
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Douglas, if you truly believe that a blastocyst is morally equivalent to a (let's say) four year old boy, then they are indeed butchering and murdering them, and an evil larger than the Nazi Holocaust is going on.
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No. Douglas, if you truly believe that a blastocyst is morally equivalent to a (let's say) four year old boy, then they are indeed butchering and murdering them, and an evil larger than the Nazi Holocaust is going on.
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Douglas, if you truly believe that a blastocyst is morally equivalent to a (let's say) four year old boy, then they are indeed butchering and murdering them, and an evil larger than the Nazi Holocaust is going on.
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Pro-choice, in comparison, infringes upon the rights of no one else (and no, a blastocyst is not a person).
Think Progress » Bush Nominates Anti-Regulatory Zealot To Head ‘Super-Powerful’ Public Safety Office 2006
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When Bush and his fundies can look down a microscope and tell which blastocyst is a boy or a girl, I will support his veto.
Think Progress » Bush on Stem Cell Veto: ‘These Boys and Girls Are Not Spare Parts’ 2006
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Kazan says: hey Ed Schultz – a blastocyst is not a baby. an embryo is not a baby, a featus is not a baby.
Think Progress » Brownback Holds Up Drawing Of Embryo, Asks ‘Are You Going To Kill Me?’ 2006
bilby commented on the word blastocyst
Not as bad as it sounds?
May 14, 2009
reesetee commented on the word blastocyst
Indeed!
May 20, 2009