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(now historical) The belief that the ovum holds all material needed for the development of the embryo.

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ovism

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(now historical) The belief that the ovum holds all material needed for the development of the embryo.

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（歴史的な用法）卵子が胚の発生に必要な全ての物質を内包しているという信念

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In the history of embryology, ovism once competed with spermism as a widely accepted explanation for inheritance.

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胚学の歴史において、胚の発生に必要なすべての物質が卵子の中にあるとする信念はかつて精子説と競合し、遺伝の説明として広く受け入れられていた。

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(now historical) The belief that the ovum holds all material needed for the development of the embryo.

Above all, ovism seems to us utterly impossible: how could every human being that ever existed or ever will exist be contained, fully formed, within Eve's ovaries?

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