It is simply made younger - rejuvenated - without going through the embryonic state.

"I thought of opening with my main male figure suspended from the ceiling," she said, "as if in an embryonic state, between life and death."

A district may be thought of as a stake in a beginning or embryonic state.

This consciousness was growing, even if all was still in an embryonic state.

Before they start growing into stem, leaves, or flowers, the buds are said to be in an embryonic state.

June 2007: Research reported by three different groups shows that normal skin cells can be reprogrammed to an embryonic state in mice.

The man's head now seems to exist within the horse's head in a sexual or an embryonic state.

The egg somehow reprograms the nucleus back to an embryonic state.

The company hopes to identify factors that reprogram human cells back to the embryonic state.

Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished than that seascape.