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Synonyms for embryo
ˈɛm briˌoʊem·b·ry·o

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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms2.2 / 5 votes

  1. embryo

    Synonyms:
    germ, nucleus, rudiment, origin

    Antonyms:
    development, shape, completion, maturity

Princeton's WordNet1.4 / 5 votes

  1. embryonoun

    (botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium

    Synonyms:
    fertilized egg, conceptus

  2. embryo, conceptus, fertilized eggnoun

    an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life

    Synonyms:
    fertilized egg, conceptus

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. embryonoun

    Synonyms:
    germ, rudiment

  2. embryoadjective

    Synonyms:
    embryotic, rudimentary, undeveloped

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words1.0 / 3 votes

  1. embryoadjective

    Synonyms:
    undeveloped, rudimentary

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "embryo":

    embryos, embryonic, foetus, jenin, fetus

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  1. Nicholas Fisk:

    Even if two got in, an embryo with three rather than the normal two sets of chromosomes won't survive as a fetus.

  2. John Couvaras:

    Kimberly ONeill with baby London wasn't getting pregnant and moved to IVF and the embryo transfers resulted in miscarriages -- that's a huge red flag.

  3. Kathy Niakan:

    This knowledge may improve embryo development after in vitro fertilization (IVF) and might provide better clinical treatments for infertility, any donated embryos would be used for research purposes only.

  4. Christian Yates:

    By trying to understand piebaldism, which doesn't have a particularly severe manifestation, so it's just a change in pigmentation, we can try to use the same techniques that we've developed to try and model and understand these other more serious diseases, which effectively are caused by similar mechanisms - cells not migrating properly in the early embryo.

  5. Jamie Grifo:

    Donor eggs have made the process easier and less complicated, instead of synchronizing a donor and recipient, now you can just pick the frozen eggs and synchronize them to the recipient's cycle. And you'll be choosing from a younger woman, so you get a higher chance of getting an embryo that will make a baby.


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