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==Etymology== First attested in English in the mid-14c., the word ''embryon'' derives from [[Medieval Latin]] ''embryo'', itself from [[Greek language|Greek]] {{lang|grc|ἔμβρυον}} (''embruon''), lit. "young one",<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3De%29%2Fmbruon ἔμβρυον] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130531161449/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3De%29%2Fmbruon |date=2013-05-31 }}, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus</ref> which is the neuter of {{lang|grc|ἔμβρυος}} (''embruos''), lit. "growing in",<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3De%29%2Fmbruos ἔμβρυος] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130531041203/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3De%29%2Fmbruos |date=2013-05-31 }}, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus</ref> from ἐν (''en''), "in"<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3De%29n ἐν] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130531101258/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3De%29n |date=2013-05-31 }}, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus</ref> and βρύω (''bruō''), "swell, be full";<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dbru%2Fw βρύω] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130531101318/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dbru%2Fw |date=2013-05-31 }}, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus</ref> the proper [[Latinisation of names|Latinized]] form of the Greek term would be ''embryum''.
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