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Conceptus

noun

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. Synonyms: embryo, fertilized egg.

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"Conceptus" Quotes from Famous Books

... deperierat per hominem deum rursus repararetur et quia exstiterat mulier quae causam mortis prima uiro suaserat, esset haec secunda mulier quae uitae causam humanis uisceribus apportaret. Nec uile uideatur quod dei filius ex uirgine natus est, quoniam praeter naturae modum conceptus et editus est. Virgo itaque de spiritu sancto incarnatum dei filium concepit, uirgo peperit, post eius editionem uirgo permansit; atque hominis factus est idemque dei filius, ita ut in eo et diuinae naturae radiaret splendor ...

— The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy • Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius

... eternal Son of God, 3. Unigenitus ternus Dei Filius, 3. being promised to our first Parents in Paradise, at the last being conceived by the Holy Ghost, promissus Protoplastis in Paradiso, tandem conceptus per Sanctum Spiritum in the most Holy Womb of the Virgin Mary, 1. of the royal house of David and clad with humane flesh, in sanctissimo utero Virginis Mari, 1. de domo regi Davidis, & indutus human carne, came into the World at Bethlehem ...

— The Orbis Pictus • John Amos Comenius

Words linked to "Conceptus" : umbilical, animate being, blastosphere, brute, creature, fauna, animal, blastula, gastrula, umbilical cord, embryo, fertilized egg, beast, morula