FERTILIZED EGG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fertilized egg mean? 

• FERTILIZED EGG (noun)
  The noun FERTILIZED EGG has 1 sense:

1. an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life

  Familiarity information: FERTILIZED EGG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FERTILIZED EGG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

conceptus; embryo; fertilized egg

Hypernyms ("fertilized egg" is a kind of...):

animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)

Meronyms (parts of "fertilized egg"):

umbilical; umbilical cord (membranous duct connecting the fetus with the placenta)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fertilized egg"):

blastosphere; blastula (early stage of an embryo produced by cleavage of an ovum; a liquid-filled sphere whose wall is composed of a single layer of cells; during this stage (about eight days after fertilization) implantation in the wall of the uterus occurs)

gastrula (double-walled stage of the embryo resulting from invagination of the blastula; the outer layer of cells is the ectoderm and the inner layer differentiates into the mesoderm and endoderm)

morula (a solid mass of blastomeres that forms when the zygote splits; develops into the blastula)

 Context examples 

The process of shape formation: the processes that are responsible for producing the complex shapes of adults from the simple ball of cells that derives from division of the fertilized egg.

(Morphogenesis, NCI Thesaurus)

A gestation with more than one fertilized egg implanted as a viable fetus in the uterus.

(Multiple Pregnancy, NCI Thesaurus)

This is needed to prepare the uterine lining for implantation by the fertilized egg.

(Corpus Luteum, NCI Thesaurus)

The progestin-releasing devices produce changes in endometrial architecture and function that reduce the potential for implantation of a fertilized egg.

(Intrauterine device, NCI Thesaurus)

This is to ensure that when fertilization occurs, the fertilized egg will carry the normal number of chromosomes rather than causing aneuploidy (an abnormal number of chromosomes).

(Meiosis, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In females, it acts on the ovaries to make follicles release their eggs and to make hormones that get the uterus ready for a fertilized egg to be implanted.

(Interstitial cell-stimulating hormone, NCI Dictionary)

This tissue is made of trophoblastic cells, which normally surround the fertilized egg in the uterus and help connect the fertilized egg to the wall of the uterus.

(Gestational trophoblastic disease, NCI Dictionary)

A condition in which a fertilized egg grows outside of the uterus, usually in one of the fallopian tubes.

(Ectopic Pregnancy, NCI Dictionary)

If you have an ectopic pregnancy, the fertilized egg grows in an abnormal place, outside the uterus, usually in the fallopian tubes.

(Ectopic Pregnancy, Dept. of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health)

It happens when a fertilized egg doesn't become a fetus.

(Cancer and Pregnancy, NIH)