fertilized egg
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The swelling that occurred in her lower abdomen, she says, was likely an ectopic pregnancy, in which a fertilized egg implants and grows outside of the uterus.
From Salon • Feb. 12, 2025
Based on such self-organization, the mammalian embryo develops from a single fertilized egg cell into a multicellular organism.
From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 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
During IVF, a doctor collects eggs from a woman, sperm is used to fertilize the eggs outside the body and one fertilized egg is implanted at a time.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 25, 2024
The instructions, he argued obliquely, were blended together in the fertilized egg.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
