EMBRYONIC CELL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does embryonic cell mean? 

• EMBRYONIC CELL (noun)
  The noun EMBRYONIC CELL has 1 sense:

1. a cell of an embryo

  Familiarity information: EMBRYONIC CELL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMBRYONIC CELL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cell of an embryo

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

embryonic cell; formative cell

Hypernyms ("embryonic cell" is a kind of...):

cell ((biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "embryonic cell"):

blastocyte (an undifferentiated embryonic cell)

ameloblast (a cell from which tooth enamel develops)

bone-forming cell; osteoblast (a cell from which bone develops)

erythroblast (a nucleated cell in bone marrow from which red blood cells develop)

fibroblast (a cell from which connective tissue develops)

neuroblast (a cell from which a nerve cell develops)

 Context examples 

The process whereby an unspecialized embryonic cell acquires the features of a specialized cell such as a heart, liver, or muscle cell.

(Differentiation, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Then eggs are released from MII into the first embryonic cell cycle.

(Oocyte Meiosis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

NCAM appears on early embryonic cells and is important in the formation of cell collectives at sites of morphogenesis.

(CD56 Antigen, NCI Thesaurus)

An embryonic cell of the outer layer of three germ layers.

(Ectoderm Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

It also plays a role in the proliferation of embryonic cells.

(BRCA2 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

An embryonic cell on the dorsal surface of the early vertebrate embryo that gives rise to the cells of the nervous system

(Neuroectodermal Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

An embryonic cell of the middle layer of three germ layers that gives rise to the musculoskeletal, vascular, urogenital systems, and connective tissue.

(Mesoderm Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

A team of scientists from the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in Shanghai, China have announced the first-ever cloning of a primate from post-embryonic cells, namely two macaque monkeys.

(Healthy cloned monkeys born in Shanghai, Wikinews)

The team, led by Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz at the University of Cambridge have developed the embryo-like structures, using three types of stem cells which let them reconstruct a process known as gastrulation, an essential step in which the embryonic cells being self-organising into the correct structure for an embryo to form.

(Scientists generate key life event in artificial mouse ‘embryo’ created from stem cells, University of Cambridge)

An embryonic cell that separates from the neural plate during formation of the neural tube and migrates to give several different lineages of adult cells: the spinal and autonomic ganglia, the glial cells of the peripheral nervous system, and nonneuronal cells, such as chromaffin cells, melanocytes and some haemopoietic cells.

(Neural Crest Cell, NCI Thesaurus)