Embryo vs. Fetus

Embryonoun

In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus.

Embryonoun

An organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis.

Embryonoun

In viviparous animals, the young animal's earliest stages in the mother's body

Embryonoun

In humans, usually the cell growth up to the end of the seventh week in the mother's body

Embryonoun

(botany) A rudimentary plant contained in the seed.

Embryonoun

The beginning; the first stage of anything.

Embryonoun

The first rudiments of an organism, whether animal or plant

Embryoadjective

Pertaining to an embryo; rudimentary; undeveloped; as, an embryo bud.

Embryonoun

(botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium

Embryonoun

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

Embryo

An embryo is the early stage of development of a multicellular organism. In general, in organisms that reproduce sexually, embryonic development is the part of the life cycle that begins just after fertilization and continues through the formation of body structures, such as tissues and organs.

Fetusnoun

An unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal.

Fetusnoun

A human embryo after the eighth week of gestation.

Fetusnoun

The young or embryo of a vertebrate animal in the womb, or in the egg; often restricted to the later stages in the development of viviparous and oviparous animals. showing the main recognizable features of the mature animal, embryo being applied to the earlier stages.

Fetusnoun

an unborn or unhatched vertebrate in the later stages of development showing the main recognizable features of the mature animal

Fetus

|Image = Human Fetus2.jpg |Image_caption = Foetus A fetus or foetus (; plural fetuses, feti, foetuses, or foeti) is the unborn offspring of an animal that develops from an embryo. Following embryonic development the fetal stage of development takes place.