embryo
Example Sentences
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She became pregnant with the first embryo and everything seemed to be progressing normally and both women allowed themselves to believe the future they'd imagined was finally happening.
From BBC
More than one million embryos now sit in U.S. storage facilities, up from roughly 400,000 in 2002, according to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.
Cardiac activity can be detected by ultrasound around six weeks into a pregnancy in cells within an embryo that will eventually become the heart.
From Seattle Times
The tank was designed to keep embryos and eggs frozen at nearly 200 degrees below-zero Celsius.
From Washington Post
The Heidemann case goes to the heart of how courts are struggling to interpret laws that can address custody of stored embryos when a couple separates.
From New York Times
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