Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An undifferentiated blastomere of the morula or the blastula stage of an embryo.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun an undifferentiated embryonic cell.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
undifferentiated cell in theblastula stage of anembryo .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an undifferentiated embryonic cell
Etymologies
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Examples
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Silly boy, its no more a clone than a blastocyte is a baby.
Think Progress » Limbaugh on Michael J. Fox: ‘I Take Back None of What I Said’ 2006
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AGAIN until you can show with something other than your BELIEF that a blastocyte is a child or has a seperate life and conciousness then you cant even BEGIN to make an ETHICAL argument based on something other than DOGMA which IS NOT THE SAME AS AN ETHIC.
Think Progress 2009
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AGAIN until you can show with something other than your BELIEF that a blastocyte is a child or has a seperate life and conciousness then you cant even BEGIN to make an ETHICAL argument based on something other than DOGMA which IS NOT THE SAME AS AN ETHIC.
Think Progress 2009
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The blastocyte cells are considered the most promising, as they have an endless capacity for replication, and can be transformed into any type of human cell.
brooke ellison, barack obama, stem cells and the future of medical science 2009
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Fetus fetishists want to use a religious -- as opposed to accepted medical -- definition of pregnancy and to create rights for a two-celled blastocyte.
Feminists: stop turning back the clock on science Suzanne 2009
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And oh... definition of pregnancy and to create rights for a two-celled blastocyte.
Feminists: stop turning back the clock on science Suzanne 2009
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If the blastocyte has rights, how are they defined?
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I cannot believe that in this day and age of blastocyte protection that any fetus that is produced doesn't go get the rice for the embryoes that wish to only be alive to be share being a brother or sister to ones that have been so hopelessly ignored by their mothers.
Right-wing humour, as it were. CC 2008
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I mean, youJoe/Jane blastocyte get more respect than fully functional 16 year old, or even a needy, whining, infant FFS!
Poor Suzie ALL-CAPS … LuLu 2008
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Say, for instance, that you believe a blastocyte has full agency on par with any human being.
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