embryo

1. an animal in the early stages of development following cleavage of the zygote and ending at birth or hatching

2. a plant in the early stages of development: in higher plants, the plumule, cotyledons, and radicle within the seed

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What does it mean when you dream about an embryo?

An embryo can represent the most vulnerable part of ourselves, the “inner child.” (Also see Baby, Miscarriage, Pregnant.)

embryo

[′em·brē·ō]

(botany)

The young sporophyte of a seed plant.

(embryology)

An early stage of development in multicellular organisms.

The product of conception up to the third month of human pregnancy.

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Embryonal tumor with multilayered rosettes in a 3-year-old girl: case report.

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Lesions to be carefully excluded in children include hepatoblastoma, mesenchymal hamartoma, and embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma of the biliary tree.

Unexpected Liver Embryonal Sarcoma in the Adult: Diagnosis and Treatment

Because of its complex and unusual growth patterns, YST component tends to be confused with other GCT components such as embryonal carcinoma, immature teratoma, and even seminoma.

Practical Applications of Immunohistochemistry in the Diagnosis of Genitourinary Tumors

The mesenchymal bone marrow stem cells (BMSC) grown together with embryonal epithelial cells of the oral cavity transform into cells similar to odontoblasts, containing the marker protein of odontogenesis.

Stem cells are the hope of modern stomatology

There was no membranous staining in pure seminomas, but it was present in two embryonal carcinomas.

Sodium Iodide Symporter Protein Expression and Clinicopathological Variables in Pure Testicular Seminomas

For both the CNS and non-CNS embryonal tumor groups, similar results were seen.

Birth weight and risk of childhood solid tumors in Brazil: a record linkage between population-based data sets/El peso al nacer y el riesgo de formacion de tumores solidos en la ninez en el Brasil: vinculacion de registros entre conjuntos de datos poblacionales

Embryonal cancer generally presents on MRI as a large, unilateral, predominantly solid mass containing cystic (mucoid-filled) spaces.

MRI classification and characterization of complex ovarian masses

[9] (%) (%) SCC 93.35 96 90.3 Adenocarcinoma 0.38 -- Adenoid cystic 1.71 2.5 4 carcinoma Mucoepidermoid 0.19 0.75 Anaplastic carcinoma 3.23 -- 4.6 Malignant melanoma 0.19 -- -- Non Hodgkin lymphoma 0.38 -- -- Lymphoepithelioma 0.57 -- -- Verrucous -- -- 1.1 carcinoma Acinar cell -- -- -- carcinoma Embryonal RMS -- -- -- Fibro sarcoma -- 0.75 -- Kaposi sarcoma Osteosarcoma Others Histological Wahid Bhattacharjee [11] typing et al.

Histopathological study of malignant lesions of oral cavity

In fact, Ruel had a germ cell embryonal carcinoma, one of the rarest variations of the rarest type of ovarian cancer.

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