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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An ovum; an ovule; an egg itself, when it is in the cell stage, or state of a cell, as a nucleated mass of protoplasm, with or without a nucleolus, and with or without a cell-wall, but ordinarily possessing both. See ovum.
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“Bone marrow may be source of new egg-cell generation in adult mammals”
“It is possible for a female robot to be implanted with a human egg-cell that can be fertilized internally by a human male, and for her to nourish that cell in the laboratory of her body and birth it in the human fashion, becoming a surrogate mother to his child.”
“This in spite of the fact that the tiny paternal germ-cell is the only medium of transmission of the paternal qualities, while the mother furnishes the much larger egg-cell, and feeds him throughout the embryonic period.”
“Under all conditions, the sex is determined by a struggle for the mastery in the egg-cell, between the energy of that egg-cell and the energy of the male spermatozoon.”
Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration
“Under all conditions, the matter of sex is determined in the egg-cell at the moment of fertilization.”
Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration
“The gametophyte or prothallial generation is thus extremely reduced, consisting of but little more than the male and female sexual cells -- the two sperm-cells in the pollen-tube and the egg-cell (with the synergidae) in the embryo-sac.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
“These, as in Gymnosperms, are of two kinds, microspores or pollen-grains, borne in the stamens (or microsporophylls) and megaspores, in which the egg-cell is developed, contained in the ovule, which is borne enclosed in the carpel (or megasporophyll).”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
“Parthenogenesis, or the development of an embryo from an egg-cell without the latter having been fertilized, has been described in species of _Thalictrum_, _Antennaria_ and _Alchemilla_.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
“Polyembryony is generally associated with the development of cells other than the egg-cell.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
“In a species of _Allium_, embryos have been found developing in the same individual from the egg-cell, synergids, antipodal cells and cells of the nucellus.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
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