tissue culture
Americannoun
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the technique of cultivating living tissue in a prepared medium outside the body.
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the tissue so cultivated.
noun
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the growth of small pieces of animal or plant tissue in a sterile controlled medium
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the tissue produced as a result of this process
Etymology
Origin of tissue culture
First recorded in 1920–25
Example Sentences
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In a tissue culture lab, they take thousands of small pieces of the plant, and grow new plants from each one.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2025
Artificial regulation of such totipotent cells through plant tissue culture is widely used for plant conservation, breeding, generation of GM species, and scientific research purposes.
From Science Daily ● May 1, 2024
Bailey Hoines, a landscape architect by training and a greenhouse assistant at the nursery, noted that a lot of conventional nurseries use divisions and tissue culture for propagating cultivars, or cultivated plants, with certain traits.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2023
Researchers use cells grown using tissue culture to answer a variety of experimental questions.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2023
It is a natural tendency for genetically unrelated cells in tissue culture to come together, ignoring species differences, and fuse to form hybrid cells.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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