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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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The first baby born through in vitro fertilization came not as a shock but as an affirmation, exhibit A to the commentariat who had for a decade promised that the day of the test-tube baby was nigh.
Dr McNair's paper was presented to a law reform forum that aimed to bring children's rights into the debate about high-tech reproduction prior to review of Victorian test-tube baby law (MX-Melbourne, 8/9/04, p.
Not only did Brown's birth mark a major milestone, but so did her conception, as she was the world's first test-tube baby.
 
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