Process by which the embryo is formed and develops

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Zebrafish embryo.

Female genito-urinary system. Engraving, 1686.

Neuromast and neuron development, zebrafish.

The Hermetic androgyne; representing the stages of the alchemical Work in One. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.

Mouse embryonic posterior neuropore, confocal image.

A foetus and placenta with umbilical cord. Engraving, 1686, the second, third, fifth and sixth figures after G. de Lairesse, 1685.

Cosmopolitæ historia naturalis : comprehendens humani corporis atomiam & anatomicam delineationem, ab ipsis primis fœtus rudimentis in utero, usque ad perfectum & adultum statum, lumine præclaro generationem hominis & efformationem exhibens.

Failure of contact inhibition.

The cultivation of living tissue. Part 3.

The cultivation of skeletal tissue.

On the unity of structure in the animal kingdom / by Martin Barry.

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Embryonic Development

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Cosmopolitæ historia naturalis : comprehendens humani corporis atomiam & anatomicam delineationem, ab ipsis primis fœtus rudimentis in utero, usque ad perfectum & adultum statum, lumine præclaro generationem hominis & efformationem exhibens.

Failure of contact inhibition.

The cultivation of living tissue. Part 3.

The cultivation of skeletal tissue.

On the unity of structure in the animal kingdom / by Martin Barry.

Embryonic Development

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Cosmopolitæ historia naturalis : comprehendens humani corporis atomiam & anatomicam delineationem, ab ipsis primis fœtus rudimentis in utero, usque ad perfectum & adultum statum, lumine præclaro generationem hominis & efformationem exhibens.

Failure of contact inhibition.

The cultivation of living tissue. Part 3.

The cultivation of skeletal tissue.

On the unity of structure in the animal kingdom / by Martin Barry.

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