EMBRUN, the ancient Ebrodunum, a fortified town of France, capital of a cognominal arrondissement in the department of Hautes-Alpes, on a steep rock near the right bank of the Durance, 25 miles E. of Gap. Pop. (1851) 3201. Embrun was an important military station in the time of the Romans. In the time of Constantine it was the see of a bishop, and afterwards of an archbishop, which was suppressed at the Revolution. The principal building in Embrun is the cathedral, a handsome Gothic structure surmounted by a lofty tower.
EMBRYO (ἱμβρυον), in Physiology, the first rudiments of an animal in the uterus, before the several members are distinctly formed; after which it is termed a fetus.