Crossword clues for fertilization
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fertilization \Fer`ti*li*za"tion\, n.
The act or process of rendering fertile.
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(Biol.) The act of fecundating or impregnating animal or vegetable germs; esp., the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, or an analogous process in flowerless plants; fecundation; impregnation.
Close fertilization (Bot.), the fertilization of pistils by pollen derived from the stamens of the same blossom.
Cross fertilization, fertilization by pollen from some other blossom. See under Cross, a.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1857, noun of action from fertilize, or else from French fertilisation.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act or process of rendering fertile. 2 The act of fecundating or impregnating animal or vegetable gametes; especially, the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, or an analogous process in flowerless plants; fecundation; impregnation.
WordNet
n. creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant [syn: fertilisation, fecundation, impregnation]
making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure [syn: fertilisation, fecundation, dressing]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "fertilization".
Basically, after the doctor carried out the in vitro fertilizations, he operated on the blastocyte, to enhance brain development.
The options are artificial insemination, intrauterine insemination, intracytoplasmic sperm injection, and in vitro fertilization.
Intrepid primatologists have investigated the amount of sperm needed for fertilization.
Paul a whit behind when he succeeded in producing laboratory colloids exhibiting amoeba-like activities, and when he cast new light upon the processes of fertilization through his startling experiments with simple sodium chlorides and magnesium solutions on low forms of marine life.
Following fertilization, the eggs had been carefully examined for a wide variety of genetic defects or abnormalities, with all unsuitable eggs immediately terminated and disposed of.
In 1988 Liza was referred to Concord Hospital’s In-Vitro Fertilization Clinic and, although at the time it was unusual for women over 40 to bear children, 41-year-old Liza became pregnant.
Among his other books were On the Various Contrivances by Which British and Foreign Orchids Are Fertilised by Insects (1862), Expressions of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), which sold almost 5,300 copies on its first day, The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilization in the Vegetable Kingdom (1876)—a subject that came improbably close to Mendel’s own work, without attaining anything like the same insights—and his last book, The Power of Movement in Plants.
I thought we had to do all that in vitro fertilization stuff, do the test tubes and the echography and follicle punctures.
At first it was thought that the enzyme on the acrosome was being inhibited in some fashion and thus the spermatozoon was being prevented from penetrating the zona pellucida—the protective layer of the ovum— but a series of beautiful demonstrations by Russell and Austin at Cambridge proved beyond all doubt that not only could fertilization still take place outside the uterus, but that non-parthogenic cell division could still be induced in vitro at least as far as the morula stage.
But Seth was certainly born to Adam by a biological process - the fertilization of a female egg by the male sperm of Adam, and the ensuing conception, pregnancy, and birth.
I need the CDC to get success rate statistics concerning in-vitro fertilization for all the Women's Clinics around the U.
They show that the Women's Clinics around the country have a high rate of pregnancy per patient in their in-vitro fertilization program but a low success rate per cycle.
One night he watched a report on the fertilization of the Antarctic Ocean with iron dust, which was to act as a dietary supplement to phytoplankton, a population that was shrinking at an alarming rate for no obvious reason.
No mammal has re-evolved external fertilization or discarded lactation.
The Magh'mmm practice group spawning with external fertilization and with a sextuploid-haploid DNA analogue.