test-tube baby
Americannoun
noun
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a fetus that has developed from an ovum fertilized in an artificial womb
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a baby conceived by artificial insemination
Etymology
Origin of test-tube baby
First recorded in 1930–35
Example Sentences
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An android raises a test-tube baby as its own in the new sci-fi fable “I Am Mother.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2019
The world's first "test-tube baby", Louise Brown, has paid tribute to the fertility doctors who gave her life, as she celebrates her 35th birthday.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2013
The Times reported Louise’s birth on July 26, 1978, and the birth of the first American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Carr, three years later.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2011
Earlier this month the Nobel prize for medicine or physiology went to British physiologist Robert Edwards, whose work led to the birth of the first "test-tube baby," Louise Brown, in 1979.
From Reuters ● Oct. 25, 2010
They were pioneers in the field of infertility treatments, and were responsible for the first test-tube baby born in the United States.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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