Thesaurus: ovism
The old theory that the egg contains the whole embryo of the future organism and the germs of all subsequent offsprings and is merely awakened to activity by the spermatozoön; -- opposed to spermism or animalculism.
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- The old theory that the egg contains the whole embryo of the future organism and the germs of all subsequent offsprings and is merely awakened to activity by the spermatozoön; -- opposed to spermism or animalculism.
- The old theory that the egg contains the whole embryo of thefuture organism and the germs of all subsequent offsprings and ismerely awakened to activity by the spermatozoön; -- opposed tospermism or animalculism.