embryonaladj.

1659 tr. R. Fludd Mosaicall Philos. iv. vi. 78 So in the seed or Sperm,..the whole man, namely the bones, flesh, blood, sinews, and such like, are complicitly conteined, and will by degrees appear out explicitly, namely in the sixt rank: for it will be altered from humour to solidity, with a certain distinction of the three principall Members: in the seventh, to an Embrionall shape.

1684 T. Beverley Scripture-Line of Time 136 And it is no wonder, the Man of Sin, beheld by the Apostle in Spirit, when no eye saw him in his Embrional condition in his first Principles, was thus remark'd by him.

1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. vii. xiii. 395 The Acephalocysts..are without head..even in the embryonal condition.

1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) ii. iv. 529 The marginal cells of the group grow out into long tubes, the so-called ‘embryonal tubes’.

1945 W. O. Howarth & L. G. G. Warne Lowson's Textbk. Bot. (ed. 9) xi. 268 The embryonal cell now divides by three walls at right angles into eight cells (octants).

1988 Mouse News Let. Nov. 111 The analysis of the expression pattern reveals the expression of homeobox genes to be region specific particularly in developing somites, sclerotomes, and embryonal ribs.

2003 L. Moss What Genes can't Do iv. 127 Retracing Remak's studies on lung differentiation in the embryonal chick, Boll suggested that normal development entailed a history of appositional ‘conflict’ between germinal connective and germinal epithelial tissue.

1880 E. O. Shakespeare & J. H. C. Simes tr. V. Cornil & L. Ranvier Man. Pathol. Histol. 171 These complex embryonal tumors [Fr. tumeurs complexes embryonnaires] might rigorously be considered as sarcomata developed in the embryo.

1900 M. Herzog in Chicago Med. Recorder 18 179 Since Birch-Hirschfeld published his article upon these embryonal renal tumors, there has appeared another very important contribution upon this subject by Wilms.

1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xvi. 433 In the testis the corresponding tumour has been called large round-cell sarcoma, seminoma, or embryonal carcinoma.

1986 J. F. Gracey Meat Hygiene (ed. 8) xix. 446/2 Embryonal nephroma is a congenital primary tumour not infrequently seen in cattle usually at the anterior end of the kidney in contact with the adrenal body.

2006 Wisconsin State Jrnl. 17 Dec. f2/1 Three days later, he underwent the operation to remove his right testicle, which confirmed he had embryonal testicular cancer.