embryo
Example Sentences
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On the agency’s instructions, according to court records, the surrogate canceled her Medicaid and began to prepare for the embryo transfer.
The clinic says in promotional materials that it offers “selective” embryos screened for genetic disease.
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
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
More than one million embryos now sit in U.S. storage facilities, up from roughly 400,000 in 2002, according to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
