embryology
embree o luh jee
- n the branch of biology that studies the formation and early development of living organisms
- Scientists were also consumed with cross-disciplinary arguments over whether genetics and embryology should be two separate studies.
- It was a remarkable feat of artificial embryology, passing through a distinctive series of intermediate stages: catamaran with two hulls, cupboard with doors, picture in a frame .
- The fact is that the cloning of that ewe was, at heart, a triumph of human embryology.