fertilized egg
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Instead of treating her, the hospital sent her home, and the fertilized egg later ruptured, requiring emergency surgery to remove part of her reproductive system.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2025
Cultivated products are grown in steel tanks using cells from a living animal, a fertilized egg or a storage bank.
From Seattle Times ● May 30, 2024
The fertilized egg then evolves into a float that returns to the surface and forms another colony.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2024
Animal embryos go through a series of characteristic developmental stages on their journey from a fertilized egg cell to a functional organism.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 23, 2023
In 1768, the Berlin embryologist Caspar Wolff tried to finesse an answer by concocting a guiding principle—vis essentialis corporis, as he called it—that progressively shepherded the maturation of a fertilized egg into a human form.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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