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test-tube baby
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test-tube baby: see in vitro fertilization in vitro fertilization (vē`trō, vĭ`trō), technique for conception of a human embryo outside the mother's body.
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test-tube baby
1. a fetus that has developed from an ovum fertilized in an artificial womb
2. a baby conceived by artificial insemination

test-tube baby
Louise Brown; first successful fertilization outside the body (1978). [Br. Hist.: Facts (1978), 596–597]


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Test-tube babies are twice as likely as naturally conceived babies to have multiple major birth defects and are more likely to be underweight at birth.
An estimated 150,000 test-tube babies have been born worldwide.
Test-tube babies are denied the papal imprimatur because they represent the hubris of engineering what was once universally considered a matter of divine will or natural law.
 
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