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embryo
in
Brave New World
(Edited)

One egg, one embryo, one adult--normality.
p. 6.3

embryo = in this book: a human organism between the time of fertilization and birth

(editor's note: A biology teacher will tell you that embryo describes the first eight weeks of human development prior to the fetal stage when organs have formed. But embryonic is also used to describe anything in the early stages of development, and Huxley uses embryo loosely to describe the developing human organism up until the time of birth.)
From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo,
p. 6.4

embryo = in this book: a human organism between the time of fertilization and birth
...and every embryo into a full-sized adult.
p. 6.4
By which time the original egg was in a fair way to becoming anything from eight to ninety-six embryos–a prodigious improvement, you will agree, on nature.
p. 7.2

embryos = in this book: human organisms between the time of fertilization and birth
Over twelve thousand seven hundred children already, either decanted or in embryo.
p. 9.4

embryo = in this book: a human organism between the time of fertilization and birth
Who give them the embryos they ask for.
p. 10.9

embryos = in this book: human organisms between the time of fertilization and birth
After which they are sent down to the Embryo Store.
p. 10.9

embryo = in this book: a human organism between the time of fertilization and birth
"Embryos are like photograph film," said Mr. Foster waggishly, as he pushed open the second door.
p. 11.2

embryos = in this book: human organisms between the time of fertilization and birth
Told them of the growing embryo on its bed of peritoneum.
p. 12.4

embryo = in this book: a human organism between the time of fertilization and birth
Referred to the embryo's troublesome tendency to anaemia, to the massive doses of hog's stomach extract and foetal foal's liver with which, in consequence, it had to be supplied.
p. 12.8
Showed them the simple mechanism by means of which, during the last two metres out of every eight, all the embryos were simultaneously shaken into familiarity with movement.
p. 12.9

embryos = in this book: human organisms between the time of fertilization and birth
Hinted at the gravity of the so-called "trauma of decanting," and enumerated the precautions taken to minimize, by a suitable training of the bottled embryo, that dangerous shock.
p. 13.1

embryo = in this book: a human organism between the time of fertilization and birth
So we allow as many as thirty per cent of the female embryos to develop normally.
p. 13.5

embryos = in this book: human organisms between the time of fertilization and birth
For of course, they didn't content themselves with merely hatching out embryos: any cow could do that.
p. 13.8

embryos = an organism in the early stages of growth prior to birth
The surrogate goes round slower; therefore passes through the lung at longer intervals; therefore gives the embryo less oxygen.
p. 14.4

embryo = in this book: a human organism between the time of fertilization and birth
Nothing like oxygen-shortage for keeping an embryo below par.
p. 14.4 *

embryo = in this book: a human organism between the time of fertilization and birth

editor's notes: A biology teacher will tell you that embryo describes the first eight weeks of human development prior to the fetal stage when organs have formed. But embryonic is also used to describe anything in the early stages of development, and Huxley uses embryo loosely to describe the developing human organism up until the time of birth.
"But why do you want to keep the embryo below par?" asked an ingenuous student.
p. 14.5

embryo = in this book: a human organism between the time of fertilization and birth
Hasn't it occurred to you that an Epsilon embryo must have an Epsilon environment as well as an Epsilon heredity?
p. 14.6
Could the individual Epsilon embryo be made a revert, by a suitable technique, to the normality of dogs and cows?
p. 15.6

embryo = an organism in the early stages of growth prior to birth
By the time they were decanted the embryos had a horror of cold.
p. 16.3

embryos = in this book: human organisms between the time of fertilization and birth
The embryos still have gills.
p. 17.2
No time for the intellectual embryos, I'm afraid.
p. 18.5
The faint hum and rattle of machinery still stirred the crimson air in the Embryo Store.
p. 34.3

embryo = in this book: a human organism between the time of fertilization and birth
The embryo is hungry; day in, day out, the blood-surrogate pump unceasingly turns its eight hundred revolutions a minute.
p. 43.9
And when, exhausted, the Sixteen had laid by their saxophones and the Synthetic Music apparatus was producing the very latest in slow Malthusian Blues, they might have been twin embryos gently rocking together on the waves of a bottled ocean of blood-surrogate.
p. 77.4

embryos = in this book: human organisms between the time of fertilization and birth
And as they sang, the lights began slowly to fade–to fade and at the same time to grow warmer, richer, redder, until at last they were dancing in the crimson twilight of an Embryo Store.
p. 85.2

embryo = in this book: a human organism between the time of fertilization and birth
She looked round; saw John and Bernard had left them and were walking up and down in the dust and garbage outside the house; but, none the less confidentially lowering her voice, and leaning, while Lenina stiffened and shrank, so close that the blown reek of embryo-poison stirred the hair on her cheek.
p. 121.6
The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo.
p. 129.7
Practical Instructions for Beta Embryo-Store Workers.
p. 129.8
My job was always with the embryos.
p. 130.7

embryos = in this book: human organisms between the time of fertilization and birth
Under the microscopes, their long tails furiously lashing, spermatozoa were burrowing head first into eggs; and, fertilized, the eggs were expanding, dividing, or if bokanovskified, budding and breaking up into whole populations of separate embryos.
p. 146.5
Some one I know knew some one who was working in the Embryo Store at the time.
p. 174.8

embryo = in this book: a human organism between the time of fertilization and birth
Henry Foster loomed up through the twilight of the Embryo Store.
p. 186.1
And she turned back to her neglected embryos.
p. 187.2

embryos = in this book: human organisms between the time of fertilization and birth
And then the reading lessons: The tot is in the pot, the cat is on the mat; and the Elementary Instructions for Beta Workers in the Embryo Store.
p. 201.4

embryo = in this book: a human organism between the time of fertilization and birth

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(1) (embryo)
an organism in the early stages of growth prior to birth, hatching, or sprouting; in humans the first eight weeks of development (prior to the fetal stage)
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Less commonly, Embryo can be a person's name.

embryo in Brave New World (Edited)

embryo
in
Brave New World
(Edited)