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blastocyst

In mammals, the hollow ball of cells which is an early stage in the development of the embryo, roughly equivalent to the blastula of other animal groups.
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Here Bush was using the same word, "life," to describe not only a minute clump of cells known as a blastocyst but also an actual human being.
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