fertilized egg
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The swelling that occurred in her lower abdomen, she says, was likely an ectopic pregnancy, in which a fertilized egg implants and grows outside of the uterus.
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2025
The fertilized egg then evolves into a float that returns to the surface and forms another colony.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2024
Animal embryos go through a series of characteristic developmental stages on their journey from a fertilized egg cell to a functional organism.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 23, 2023
An ectopic pregnancy happens when a fertilized egg grows outside the uterus, most often in the fallopian tube, according to the Mayo Clinic.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 2023
In 1768, the Berlin embryologist Caspar Wolff tried to finesse an answer by concocting a guiding principle—vis essentialis corporis, as he called it—that progressively shepherded the maturation of a fertilized egg into a human form.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
