Germinal: alternatives and connections

A larval entozoon in the form of a subglobular or oval vesicle, or hydatid, filled with fluid, sometimes found in the tissues of man a…

A membranous appendage of the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles, -- in mammals serving to connect the fetus with the parent; the…

A small depression, sac, or vesicle, as the socket of a tooth, the air cells of the lungs, the ultimate saccules of glands, etc.

The colored ring around the nipple, or around a vesicle or pustule.

Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid.

The germinal vesicle.

A large vesicle or bulla, usually containing a serous fluid; a blister; a bubble, as in water, glass, etc.

A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collecti…

A bleb; a vesicle, or an elevation of the cuticle, containing a transparent watery fluid.

A purse; also, a vesicle; a pod; a hull.

A bud; a germ of a plant.

A contractile cell or vesicle containing liquid pigment and capable of changing its form or size, thus causing changes of color in the…

The heart of the seed; the embryo or germ.

A minute vesicle in a red seaweed, which contains the reproductive spores.

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the process of development; as, the developmental power of a germ.

The gradual formation or production of organs or parts by a process of evolution or development, as when the seed develops the root an…

Inclosed in a cyst, or a sac, bladder, or vesicle; as, an encysted tumor.

That theory of generation which supposes the germ to preexist in the parent, and its parts to be developed, but not actually formed, b…