embryologicaladj.

1834 Medico-chirurg. Rev., & Jrnl. Pract. Med. 20 372 The most interesting embryological changes which the organ undergoes, up to the time of its complete maturity.

1854 C. Darwin Let. 7 July in Corr. (1989) V. 201 As far as my elastic theory goes all I care about is that very ancient organisms, (when different from existing,) shd tend to resemble the larval or embryological stages of the existing.

1893 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 20 407 In some cases more than one [fertilized egg on a single prothallium of a fern] is known to begin embryological development.

1935 Discovery May 136/2 This ‘induction’ of a new embryo involves both sorts of embryological change; the production of new sorts of tissues..and the arrangement of those tissues.

1995 J. H. Schwartz Skeleton Keys 298/2 On the adult leg, these muscles face anteriorly because, during embryological development, the lower limb rotates medially.

2002 S. J. Gould Struct. Evolutionary Theory x. 1072 We would also identify this common principle as developmental constraint based on homologous genes and embryological pathways.

1834 Medico-chirurg. Rev., & Jrnl. Pract. Med. 21 61 There must be of a necessity considerable uncertainty on most embryological speculations.

1849 L. Agassiz Twelve Lect. Compar. Embryol. xii. 96/1 It was, indeed, with this type [sc. the Vertebrata] that embryological studies began—when Dollinger, the Physiologist, traced the growth of the young Chicken within the egg.

1871 Amer. Naturalist 5 710 Where..others..regard them [sc. Odonata] as Orthopterous. or Pseudoneuropterous, we would abide by embryological data to decide the question.

1940 L. H. Hyman Invertebrates I. vii. 538 As stomodaeum is an embryological term, this structure in adult anthozoans is best termed pharynx.

1989 Jrnl. Heredity 80 24/3 Methods for chromosome counts, meiotic chromosome analysis, seed-set determination, and embryological studies were previously reported.

2003 J. Weeks Sexuality (ed. 2) v. 111 The desire for positive results from embryological research might be a private goal..but it was likely to be publicly financed, and therefore the subject of political decisions.