embryological
- adjective
- /ˌɛm.bri.əˈlɒdʒ.ɪ.kəl/
- Specialized
:
embriológico
- The researchers focused on the embryological changes that occur during the early stages of human development.
- embryological development
Examples
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Thus, the embryological units are technically called parasegments.
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Rather, the posterior part of one embryological segment joins with the anterior half of the next segment to form an adult division.
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Each of these factors should therefore be taken into account when the effect of treatment protocols, whether clinical or embryological, is examined.
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Embryological segments of insects do not correspond one for one with adult divisions of the body.
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For this primary reason, our modern embryological models tend to be primarily differentiative, and our evolutionary models primarily additive.
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Injuries sustained at different weeks of fetal development can specify certain expected deficits, with a direct correlation to any embryological development table.
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Ferraro (1980a) developed a temperature-dependent empirical equation from which temporal estimates of duration for any stage of embryological development, including hatching, could be obtained.
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It is compelling that the narwhal has taken the evolutionary path of silencing eight pairs of teeth in its embryological development and stimulating one pair in such a dramatic and uncharacteristic way.
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How could such unity possibly be supported if, as we all agree, the primary segments in the two phyla—insect metameres and vertebrate somites—arise by such different embryological and anatomical routes?
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This was at a time when populations of the common purple sea urchin, Arbacia punctulata, popular especially for embryological research at MBL, were heavily harvested and dangerously depleted.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
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About the first stage of life inside an egg or the mother's body before birth
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Relating to the early stage before birth or hatching
Relating to embryos and their early growth before birth or hatching
Surface Forms
Morphology
embryological = embryology (transparent) = embryo + logy + ical
The adjective is directly formed from the noun 'embryology' with the regular adjectival suffix '-ical', so the technical meaning is structurally clear.
Etymology
Embryological comes from embryo, which itself comes from old Greek parts en- 'in' and bryein 'to grow', so an embryo is something 'growing inside'. That's why embryological describes how embryos form and develop.