Definition of "embryoid" [embryoid]

• A minute plant or animal form that resembles an embryo. (noun)
• Resembling an embryo. (adjective)

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• "Reporting in Oncogene, a publication of Nature Publishing Group, the research team of Dr. Anthony Atala, the institute's director, and Markus Hengstschlager from the Medical University of Vienna have found that amnion stem cells can form three-dimensional aggregates of cells known as embryoid bodies."
• "Reporting in Oncogene, a publication of Nature Publishing Group, the research teams of Anthony Atala, M.D., director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and Markus Hengstchläger, Ph. D., from the Medical University of Vienna, have shown that these amnion stem cells can form three-dimensional aggregates of cells known as embryoid bodies"
• "Reporting in Oncogene, a publication of Nature Publishing Group, the research teams of Anthony Atala, M.D., director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and Markus Hengstschläger, Ph. D., from the Medical University of Vienna, have shown that these amnion stem cells can form three-dimensional aggregates of cells known as embryoid bodies"