Days post coitum

{{Short description|Term commonly used when referring to the age of an embryo}}

dpc (Latin, short for days post coitum or dies post coitum, meaning days after sex) is a term commonly used in medicine and biology to refer to the age of an embryo.{{cite book |last=Baldock |first=Richard |last2=Bard |first2=Jonathan |last3=Davidson |first3=Duncan R. |last4=Morriss-Kay |first4=Gillian |title=Kaufman's Atlas of Mouse Development Supplement |chapter=Introduction |publisher=Elsevier |date=2016 |isbn=978-0-12-800043-4 |doi=10.1016/b978-0-12-800043-4.00001-4}}