| embryological | <biology> Of or pertaining to embryology. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| embryologist | A specialist in embryo development. (09 Oct 1997) |
| embryology | <study> The study of the embryo and its development from a one-celled zygote (fertilized ovum) to the establishment of form and shape (at which point, if it is an animal, it becomes a foetus). A subfield of developmental biology. (09 Oct 1997) |
| embryoma | Embryonic tumour, a neoplasm, usually malignant, which arises during intrauterine or early postnatal development from an organ rudiment or immature tissue; it forms immature structures characteristic of the part from which it arises, and may form other tissues as well. The term includes neuroblastoma and Wilms' tumour, and is also used to include certain neoplasms presenting in later life, this usage being based on the belief that such tumours arise from embryonic rests. See: teratoma. Synonym: embryoma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| embryoma of the kidney | <oncology, tumour> Wilm's tumour or nephroblastoma, is a cancerous tumour of the kidney in children. Wilm's is the most common tumour of the kidney and the most common intra-abdominal tumour in children. The exact cause is unknown, but probably develops in foetal tissue due to an underlying genetic factor. Like retinoblastoma, both sporadic and inherited forms occur. Believed to be caused by development of homozygosity for a deletion of the tip of the short arm of chromosome 11, which is presumed to contain a tumour suppressor gene. (07 Oct 1997) Previous: willow wattle, willow-weed, willow-wort, wills, Wilms, Max, wilms tumourNext: Wilms' tumour, Wilson block, Wilson, Clifford, wilson diseaseembryoma of the kidney -->Wilms' tumour A malignant renal tumour of young children, composed of small spindle cells and various other types of tissue, including tubules and, in some cases, structures resembling foetal glomeruli, and striated muscle and cartilage. Often inherited as an autosomal dominant trait . Synonym: adenomyosarcoma, embryoma of the kidney, nephroblastoma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| embryomorphous | 1. Relating to the formation and structure of the embryo. 2. Applied to structures or tissues in the body similar to those in the embryo, or embryonal rests. Origin: embryo-+ G. Morphe, shape (05 Mar 2000) |
| embryonal | <biology> Pertaining to an embryo, or the initial state of any organ; embryonic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| embryonal adenoma | <tumour> A benign neoplasm in which the glandular epithelial elements are not fully differentiated, resembling immature tissue observed in embryonic development. (05 Mar 2000) |
| embryonal area | Embryonic area, the area of the blastoderm on either side of, and immediately cephalic to, the primitive streak where the component cell layers have become thickened. (05 Mar 2000) |
| embryonal carcinoma | <tumour> A malignant neoplasm of the testis, composed of large anaplastic cells with indistinct cellular borders, amphophilic cytoplasm, and ovoid, round, or bean-shaped nuclei that may have multiple large nucleoli; in some instances, the neoplastic cells may form tubular structures; embryonal carcinoma's may be malignant teratomas without differentiated elements. (05 Mar 2000) |
| embryonal carcinosarcoma | <tumour> A neoplasm composed chiefly or entirely of immature undifferentiated cells (i.e., blast forms), with little or virtually no stroma. Synonym: blastocytoma, embryonal carcinosarcoma. Origin: blasto-+ G. -oma, tumour (05 Mar 2000) |
| embryonal leukaemia | A form of leukaemia in which the abnormal cells are thought to be the precursors of lymphoblasts, myeloblasts, or monoblasts. Synonym: embryonal leukaemia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| embryonal medulloepithelioma | <tumour> An epitheliomatous tumour of the nonpigmented layer of the ciliary epithelium. Synonym: embryonal tumour of ciliary body. (05 Mar 2000) |
| embryonal tumour | Embryonic tumour, a neoplasm, usually malignant, which arises during intrauterine or early postnatal development from an organ rudiment or immature tissue; it forms immature structures characteristic of the part from which it arises, and may form other tissues as well. The term includes neuroblastoma and Wilms' tumour, and is also used to include certain neoplasms presenting in later life, this usage being based on the belief that such tumours arise from embryonic rests. See: teratoma. Synonym: embryoma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| embryonal tumour of ciliary body | <tumour> An epitheliomatous tumour of the nonpigmented layer of the ciliary epithelium. Synonym: embryonal tumour of ciliary body. (05 Mar 2000) |