Embryology

Definition: Embryology

Embryology

Noun

1. The branch of biology that studies the formation and early development of living organisms.

Date "embryology" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references)

Etymology: Embryology \Em`bry*ol"o*gy\, noun. [from Greek expression 'e`mbryon an embryo -logy: compare to the French expression embryologie.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Embryology

Domain	Definitions
Health	The study of the development of an organism during the embryonic and fetal stages of life. (references)
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Crosswords: Embryology

English words defined with "embryology": Embryological, Embryologist ♦ germ layer ♦ Natural system ♦ Wolffian ♦ Zoology. (references)

Specialty definitions using "embryology": Neurosciences ♦ teratologic, teratological ♦ urogenital sinus. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Embryology

Domain	Title
Books	A Review of Histogenesis/Organogenesis in the Developing North American Opossum (Didelphis Virginiana) (Advances in Anatomy, Embryology, and cellbiolo (reference) The Venous Drainage of the Human Myocardium (Advances in Anatomy, Embryology, and Cell Biology, . V. 168) (reference) Infant Development: The Embryology of Early Human Behavior (reference) Morphology and Innervation of the Fish Heart (Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology, Vol 89) (reference) The Catecholaminergic Innervation of the Rat Amygdala (Advances in Anatomy, Embryology, and Cell Biology, Vol 142) (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Excerpta Medica - Section 1 Anatomy Anthropology Embryology & Histology (reference) Anatomy And Embryology (reference) (more periodical examples)

Music	Revolutionary Girl Utena: Virtual Star Embryology [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Usage Frequency: Embryology

"Embryology" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.29% of the time. "Embryology" is used about 35 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	94.29%	33	60,273
Noun (proper)	5.71%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	35	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Embryology

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
embryology	114
human embryology	23
comparative embryology	8
chick embryology	7
chicken embryology	7
embryology heart	6
embryology human link	3
embryology mouse	3
embryology lecture	3
anatomy embryology	2
embryology textbook	2
langmans medical embryology	2
embryology image	2
embryology kidney	2
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Modern Translations: Embryology

Language		Translations for "embryology"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		embrionologji. (various references)

Arabic		‏علم الأجنة. (various references)

Bulgarian		ембриология. (various references)

Chinese		发�"�学. (various references)

Czech		embryologie. (various references)

Farsi		رویان شناسی . (various references)

Finnish		sikiöoppi. (various references)

French		embryologie. (various references)

German		Embryologie. (various references)

Greek		εμβρυολογία. (various references)

Hebrew		תורת �"עובר. (various references)

Hungarian		embriológia. (various references)

Italian		embriologia. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		発�"�学 (genetics). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		はっせいがく (genetics). (various references)

Korean		발생학. (various references)

Pig Latin		embryologyay

Portuguese		germe (germ, nucleus, rudiment, rudiments). (various references)

Romanian		embriologie. (various references)

Russian		эмбриология. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		embriologija. (various references)

Spanish		embriología, ciencia embrionario. (various references)

Swedish		embryologi. (various references)

Turkish		embriyoloji. (various references)

Ukranian		ембріологія. (various references)

Vietnamese		phôi học. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Embryology

Misspellings
	"Embryology" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: embryologies, embyology, emryology. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Embryology"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "embryology" (pronounced e'mbrēÄ"lujē)
6	-ē Ä" l u j ē	anesthesiology, archaeology, archeology, cardiology, epidemiology, etiology, genealogy, geology, ideology, physiology, radiology, sociology, theology.
5	-Ä" l u j ē	anthology, anthropology, apology, astrology, bacteriology, biology, biotechnology, chronology, cosmetology, criminology, cytology, dendrochronology, dermatology, doxology, ecology, endocrinology, entomology, epistemology, ethnology, ethology, etymology, geomorphology, gerontology, graphology, gynecology, histology, Hymnology, immunology, kinesiology, limnology, meteorology, methodology, microbiology, micropaleontology, mineralogy, morphology, mycology, mythology, neurology, numerology, oncology, ontology, ophthalmology, ornithology, otology, paleontology, pathology, penology, petrology, pharmacology, Pomology, psychology, rheumatology, seismology, serology, terminology, toxicology, urology, virology, zoology.
4	-l u j ē	analogy, cosmology, elegy, eulogy, trilogy.
3	-u j ē	prodigy, strategy.
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Anagrams: Embryology

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-e-g-l-m-o-o-r-y-y"
	-2 letters: bloomery, bryology.
	-3 letters: begloom, bloomer, legroom, myology, rebloom.
	-4 letters: blooey, bloomy, bolero, booger, boogey, boomer, broomy, emboly, embryo, gloomy, goober, greyly, mooley.
	-5 letters: beryl, bloom, bogey, bogle, boogy, boomy, brome, bromo, broom, germy, globe, gloom, glory, golem, gombo, gooey, groom, looby, looey, moory, morel, obole, ogler, ology, omber, ombre, roble, romeo, roomy.
	Words containing the letters "b-e-g-l-m-o-o-r-y-y"
	+5 letters: embryologically.
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