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embryo

[em-bree-oh] / ˈɛm briˌoʊ /
NOUN
fetus
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It not only covered more services than other states, including three egg retrievals and unlimited embryo transfers, it covered them for more people.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

Meanwhile, the right also covers women and their partners who experience a pregnancy loss, including miscarriage, terminations and unsuccessful IVF embryo transfers.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

At the same time, the law draws an important line: A surrogate cannot use her own egg to create the embryo she carries.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

The embryo grows until it causes the organ to rupture, triggering catastrophic bleeding.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

In principle, the single-celled embryo does possess all the genetic information to specify a full organism.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

He also contributed to a 2024 study that found that cotton and polyester microfibers disrupted the development of sea urchin embryos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

However, embryos are often not visible on an ultrasound early in pregnancy.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

It was during a telephone consultation in June that they found out their embryos would be destroyed.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

So unmarried couples with shared embryos may want to modify the terms of the contract signed with the fertility clinic as part of a prenup process.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

We stopped going to the egg-dumping site when, of all the eggs we dug up, something like 99 percent of them turned up dead embryos.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane




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