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Embryological   Listen
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Embryological, Embryologic  adj.  (Biol.) Of or pertaining to embryology.






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"Embryological" Quotes from Famous Books



... production of great physical defects, are due to some cause within the embryo itself, and that most of them take place in the first three or four weeks, when the mother is by no means likely to influence the course of embryological development by her mental attitude toward it, for the very good reason that ...
— Applied Eugenics • Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson

... in that direction. My experience in Munich was very varied. With Dollinger I learned to value accuracy of observation. As I was living in his house, he gave me personal instruction in the use of the microscope, and showed me his own methods of embryological investigation. He had already been the teacher of Karl Ernst von Baer; and though the pupil outran the master, and has become the pride of the scientific world, it is but just to remember that he owed to him his first initiation into the processes of embryological ...
— Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence • Louis Agassiz

... and Von Baer on embryological grounds, made the further step of proving that, even in this limited sense, animals cannot be arranged in a single series, but that there are several distinct plans of organisation to be observed among them, no one of which, in its highest and most complicated ...
— Darwiniana • Thomas Henry Huxley

... The whole tendency of science now is to include along with morphological considerations the profounder generalizations of Physiology and Embryology. And the contribution of the latter science especially has been found so important that biology henceforth must look for its classification largely to Embryological characters. ...
— Natural Law in the Spiritual World • Henry Drummond



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