Definition of Embryonal

1. Adjective. Of an organism prior to birth or hatching. "Embryologic development"

Exact synonyms: Embryologic, Embryonic
Similar to: Immature
Derivative terms: Embryology, Embryo, Embryo, Embryology

Definition of Embryonal

1. a. Pertaining to an embryo, or the initial state of any organ; embryonic.

Definition of Embryonal

1. Adjective. embryonic ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Embryonal

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Embryonal

1. Pertaining to an embryo, or the initial state of any organ; embryonic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Embryonal

embryoid
embryoids
embryoless
embryolike
embryologic
embryological
embryologically
embryologies
embryologist
embryologists
embryology
embryoma
embryoma of the kidney
embryomorphous
embryon
embryonal (current term)
embryonal adenoma
embryonal area
embryonal carcinoma
embryonal carcinosarcoma
embryonal leukaemia
embryonal medulloepithelioma
embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma
embryonal rhabdosarcoma
embryonal tumour
embryonal tumour of ciliary body
embryonary
embryonate
embryonated
embryones

Literary usage of Embryonal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1898)
"Some of these embryonal fibre systems are morphologically quite distinct, while others overlap one another, both with reference to their position in the ..."

2. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1895)
"Ordinarily three such embryonal membranes are formed, the middle one of which acquires a considerable thickness and firmness by the deposition of ..."

3. Neoplastic Diseases: A Treatise on Tumors by James Ewing (1922)
"Lobstein, 1829, likened the growth of a tumor to that of embryonal tissues ... Houel, 1864, designated certain sarcomas as embryonal, because they seemed to ..."

4. A Text-book of Histology by Frederick Randolph Bailey (1906)
"embryonal and Mucous Tissue. embryonal and mucous tissue are essentially ... embryonal tissue is not found in the adult, while mucous tissue has only a very ..."

5. Microscopical Morphology of the Animal Body in Health and Disease by Carl Heitzmann (1882)
"... it is a vesicle the size of » millet-seed, attached to the head of the epididymis by means of a slender pedicle. It is a remnant of the embryonal ..."

6. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"As Morawitz emphasizes, a classification of the anemias on the ground of the regeneration types seen in them is not a very happy one, for (1) the embryonal ..."

7. A Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger (1898)
"The formative phase, or the continuance of the embryonal development, and the assumption ... The phase of elongation of the already formed embryonal organs. ..."

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