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FERTILIZATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure
Synonyms:
dressing; fecundation; fertilisation; fertilization
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("fertilization" is a kind of...):
enrichment (act of making fuller or more meaningful or rewarding)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fertilization"):
top dressing (a layer of fertilizer or manure not plowed in)
Derivation:
fertilize (provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant
Synonyms:
fecundation; fertilisation; fertilization; impregnation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Hypernyms ("fertilization" is a kind of...):
conception; creation (the event that occurred at the beginning of something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fertilization"):
pollenation; pollination (transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of a plant)
cross-fertilisation; cross-fertilization (fertilization by the union of male and female gametes from different individual of the same species)
self-fertilisation; self-fertilization (fertilization by the union of male and female gametes from the same individual)
superfecundation (fertilization of two or more ova released during the same menstrual cycle by sperm from separate acts of coitus (especially by different males))
superfetation (fertilization of a second ovum after a pregnancy has begun; results in two fetuses of different ages in the uterus at the same time)
Derivation:
fertilize (introduce semen into (a female))
Context examples:
A human life stage, during prenatal development, that begins at fertilization and typically continues until the end of eight weeks after fertilization, with full formation of the embryo.
(Embryonic Stage, NICHD)
In humans, the developing organism from the time of fertilization until the end of the eighth week of gestation, when it is called a fetus.
(Embryo, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The branch of physiology concerned with the changes that take place between fertilization and maturity.
(Developmental Physiology Differentiation/Growth, NCI Thesaurus)
Almost all chorioblastomas form in the uterus after fertilization of an egg by a sperm, but a small number form in a testis or an ovary.
(Chorioblastoma, NCI Dictionary)
Fertilization of an ovum by a spermatozoon resulting in formation of a viable zygote.
(Conception, NCI Thesaurus)
The mice were exposed during gestation, between 10 days after fertilization and birth, which corresponds to the middle of the first trimester and birth in humans.
(Low-level arsenic exposure before birth associated with early puberty and obesity in female mice, NIH)
Over-fertilization of agricultural fields is a growing environmental problem.
(Plant gene discovery could help reduce fertilizer pollution in waterways, National Science Foundation)
They play a role in various biological processes, including fertilization, neurogenesis, myogenesis, embryonic TGF-alpha release and inflammatory response.
(ADAM Type Metalloprotease Domain, NCI Thesaurus)
The ADAM gene products with known functions act in a highly diverse set of biological processes, including fertilization, neurogenesis, myogenesis, embryonic TGF-alpha release and the inflammatory response.
(ADAM Family Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
A male who contributes to the genetic makeup of his offspring through the fertilization of an ovum by his sperm.
(Biological Father, NCI Thesaurus)
