embryo

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Scientists from the Robinson Research Institute, the School of Biomedicine, and the Freemasons Centre for Male Health and Wellbeing studied how space-like conditions affect sperm navigation, fertilization, and early embryo development.

From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026

The research team discovered that many of these extra mutations arise soon after conception during the earliest rounds of cell division in the embryo.

From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2025

A week later it was confirmed that the embryo hadn't become a baby.

From BBC • Nov. 27, 2025

She became pregnant with the first embryo and everything seemed to be progressing normally and both women allowed themselves to believe the future they'd imagined was finally happening.

From BBC • Nov. 27, 2025

As with humans, the basic plan for the adult body is furled into an embryo.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee