EMBRYO

embryo (em-bree-oh). A developing but unborn or unhatched animal; esp., an unborn human from conception until the development of organs (i.e., until about the eighth week of pregnancy). Cf. FETUS; ZYGOTE. embryo formatus (for-may-t[schwa]s).Eccles. law. A human embryo organized into human shape and endowed with a soul. • Though rejected in the early doctrine of […]