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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In embryology, the changes or conditions exhibited by the egg previous to its fertilization, or fecundation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physiol.) A term collectively applied to the changes or conditions preceding fecundation, especially to the changes which the ovum undergoes before fecundation.
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- noun biology, dated, rare The collective
changes orconditions preceding fecundation , especially those affecting theovum .
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pre- + fecundation
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