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Definitions for embryonic
ˌɛm briˈɒn ɪk; ˈɛm bri ə nl, ˌɛm briˈoʊn lem·b·ry·on·ic

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. embryonic, embryologic, embryonaladjective

    of an organism prior to birth or hatching

    "in the embryonic stage"; "embryologic development"

  2. embryonic, embryoticadjective

    in an early stage of development

    "the embryonic government staffed by survivors of the massacre"; "an embryonic nation, not yet self-governing"

Wiktionary

  1. embryonicadjective

    Of or relating to an embryo.

  2. embryonicadjective

    Something, especially a project, that is very new and is still evolving; something that has yet to reach its full potential.

ChatGPT

  1. embryonic

    Embryonic refers to the state or stage of being an embryo, which is an unborn or unhatched offspring in the process of development, specifically during the period from approximately the second to the eighth week after fertilization in humans. It also can be used more broadly to refer to anything in an early or undeveloped stage.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Embryonicadjective

    of or pertaining to an embryo; embryonal; rudimentary

Entomology

  1. Embryonic

    found in, or relating to the embryo; in an undeveloped state or condition.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of embryonic in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of embryonic in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of embryonic in a Sentence

  1. Meghan Markle:

    I'd seen this documentary on Netflix about feminism and one of the things they said during pregnancy was 'I feel the embryonic kicking of feminism,' i love that. So boy or girl or whatever it is, we hope that that's the case, with our little bump.

  2. Chris Mason:

    If the AMD trials are successful, then by using embryonic stem cells as the starting material, the therapy can then be affordably manufactured at large scale.

  3. Mike Levin:

    I think the way to really achieve regenerative medicine is to exploit the collective intelligence of the body's cells. They already know how to build all of these organs. They did it during embryonic development. All that information is still there, for me, the goal is to identify triggers, very simple kinds of stimuli, that will kick-start the cells and convince them to build whatever it is that you want them to build.

  4. Kapil Bharti:

    Data from 10 to 12 patients is needed to show that the implanted cells are indeed safe, while researchers have used embryonic stem cell derived cells to treat age-related macular degeneration, (the RIKEN study) is the first study that used induced pluripotent stem cells.

  5. Darla Zelenitsky:

    It is an amazing specimen... I have been working on dinosaur eggs for 25 years and have yet to see anything like it, up until now, little has been known of what was going on inside a dinosaur's egg prior to hatching, as there are so few embryonic skeletons, particularly those that are complete and preserved in a life pose.

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