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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
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test-tube baby

Louise Brown; first successful fertilization outside the body (1978). [Br. Hist.: Facts (1978), 596–597]
See: Childbirth
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