| embower | To cover with a bower; to shelter with trees. Alternative forms: imbower] . To lodge or rest in a bower. "In their wide boughs embow'ring. " Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| embrace | Intimate or close encircling with the arms; pressure to the bosom; clasp; hug. "We stood tranced in long embraces, Mixed with kisses." (Tennyson) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| embranchment | The branching forth, as of trees. Origin: Cf. F. Embranchement. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| embrasure | 1. A splay of a door or window. "Apart, in the twilight gloom of a window's embrasure, Sat the lovers." (Longfellow) 2. An aperture with slant sides in a wall or parapet, through which cannon are pointed and discharged; a crenelle. Origin: F, fr. Embraser, perh. Equiv. To ebraser to widen an opening; of unknown origin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| embreathement | The act of breathing in; inspiration. "The special and immediate suggestion, embreathement, and dictation of the Holy Ghost." (W. Lee) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| embrew | To imbrue; to stain with blood. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| embrocate | <medicine> To moisten and rub (a diseased part) with a liquid substance, as with spirit, oil, etc, by means of a cloth or sponge. Origin: NL. Embrocatus, p. P. Of embrocare; cf. Gr. Lotion, fomentation, fr. To foment; in + to wet. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| embrocation | <medicine> The act of moistening and rubbing a diseased part with spirit, oil, etc. The liquid or lotion with which an affected part is rubbed. Origin: NL. Embrocatio: cf. F. Embrocation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| embryatrics | Rarely used term for fetology. Origin: embryo-+ G. Iatros, physician (05 Mar 2000) |
| embryo | <embryology, gynaecology> In animals, those derivatives of the fertilized ovum that eventually become the offspring, during their period of most rapid development, i.e., after the long axis appears until all major structures are represented. In man, the developing organism is an embryo from about two weeks after fertilization to the end of seventh or eighth week. Origin: Gr. Embryon (18 Nov 1997) |
| embryo resorption | Death and resorption of the embryo that takes place at any developmental stage after ovum implantation and before the completion of organogenesis. does not include foetal resorption. (12 Dec 1998) |
| embryo sac | <botany> See Embryonic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| embryo technology | Refers to the manipulation of mammalian embryos, for example, cloning, embryo splitting, in vitro fertilization, artificial insemination, gamete and embryo storage. (14 Nov 1997) |
| embryo transfer | The placement of a laboratory-fertilized egg into the uterus. (09 Oct 1997) |
| embryo, nonmammalian | The embryo of species other than mammals. For the chicken, use the specific chick embryo. (12 Dec 1998) |