embryology

English

Etymology

From embryo +‎ -logy.

Pronunciation

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Noun

embryology (usually uncountable, plural embryologies)

1. The scientific study of embryos and (often) also the developmental biology of all prenatal phases (embryology sensu stricto plus fetology and teratology collectively).

Derived terms

• cytoembryology
• embryologic
• embryologist
• neuroembryology

Related terms

• embryogenesis

Translations

the scientific study of embryos

• Balinese: ᬩ᭄ᬭᬸᬦᬯᬶᬤ᭄ᬬ (brunawidya)
• Catalan: embriologia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 胚胎學 / 胚胎学 (zh) (pēitāixué)

• Dutch: embryologie (nl) f
• Esperanto: embriologio
• Finnish: embryologia (fi)
• French: embryologie (fr) f
• German: Embryologie (de) f
• Greek: εμβρυολογία (el) f (emvryología)
• Hindi: भ्रूणविज्ञान m (bhrūṇvijñān)
• Hungarian: embriológia (hu)
• Italian: embriologia (it) f
• Japanese: 発生学 (ja) (はっせいがく, hasseigaku), 胎生学 (ja) (たいせいがく, taiseigaku)
• Kazakh: эмбриология (émbriologiä)
• Khmer: ភ្រូណាវិទ្យា (pruen na vityie)
• Kyrgyz: эмбриология (embriologiya)
• Malay: embriologi, kaji lembaga
• Portuguese: embriologia (pt) f
• Romanian: embriologie (ro) f
• Russian: эмбриоло́гия (ru) f (embriológija)
• Spanish: embriología f
• Volapük: brüomav

See also

• histogenesis
• histology