Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An undifferentiated blastomere of the morula or the blastula stage of an embryo.
Wiktionary
- n. An undifferentiated cell in the blastula stage of an embryo.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. an undifferentiated embryonic cell.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an undifferentiated embryonic cell
Examples
“Silly boy, its no more a clone than a blastocyte is a baby.”
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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.”
“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.”
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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.”
“And oh... definition of pregnancy and to create rights for a two-celled blastocyte.”
“Say, for instance, that you believe a blastocyte has full agency on par with any human being.”
“If the blastocyte has rights, how are they defined?”
“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.”
“I mean, youJoe/Jane blastocyte get more respect than fully functional 16 year old, or even a needy, whining, infant FFS!”
“I take it that, for this reason, my cats are actually have signficantly more moral status than a blastocyte.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘blastocyte’.
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-blast
formative; germinal; embryonic; developing
Also: -blastic, blasto-, -blasty

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