Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to an embryo, or to the embryonic stage of an organism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Biol.) Pertaining to an embryo, or the initial state of any organ; embryonic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
embryonic
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of an organism prior to birth or hatching
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Examples
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Currently, treatment is based on whether a patient's cancer is classified as alveolar or embryonal, which is determined by the appearance of a tumour sample under the microscope.
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Because of the "primitive" appearance of the heart, it is sometimes called "spongiform" or "embryonal" cardiomyopathy, and is thought to be caused by incomplete heart cell maturation.
Cardiomyopathy 2010
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The development of cell culture techniques permitted investigators to establish cultures of embryonal carcinoma cells (EC cells) from murine testicular teratocarcinomas.
The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Advanced Information 2007
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When the team returned to Chicago, he was examined, then diagnosed with embryonal cell carcinoma -- cancer.
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Martin Evans had worked with mouse embryonal carcinoma (EC) cells, which although they came from tumors could give rise to almost any cell type.
The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Press Release 2007
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[4] Kleinsmith LJ, Pierce, G.B. Multipotentiality of single embryonal carcinoma cells.
The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Advanced Information 2007
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What was illegal was to use * federal funds* to create new * embryonal* stem cell lines.
StrategyPage.com 2009
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A few years later, Kleinsmith and Pierce demonstrated that such tumours were derived from undifferentiated embryonal carcinoma cells [4].
The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Advanced Information 2007
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Human skin is differentiated (i.e., adult), embryonal stem cells are not.
StrategyPage.com 2009
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These embryonal carcinoma (EC) cells could be grown on feeder layers of irradiated fibroblasts.
The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Advanced Information 2007
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