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ectogenesis

/ek-toh-jen-uh-sis/US // ˌɛk toʊˈdʒɛn ə sɪs //UK // (ˌɛktəʊˈdʒɛnəsɪs) //

外生症,外生性,外植体形成,外植体生成

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Biology.

    • : development outside the body, as of an embryo in an artificial environment.

Examples

  • The technology behind ectogenesis, as feminist journalist Soraya Chemaly notes, has been in development for at least a decade.

  • Soraya Chemaly already predicted this particularly “surreal” argument in her initial report on ectogenesis.

  • In America: The National Catholic Review, for example, John Nassivera solemnly intones that ectogenesis is “a very serious thing.”

  • The feminist rationale for ectogenesis seems to practically write itself.

  • These portentous rumblings aside, no coherent position on ectogenesis has emerged so far within the pro-life movement.

  • Plate has recently given this "definitely directed variation" the name of ectogenetic orthogenesis, or, briefly, ectogenesis.