Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. In an artificial environment outside the living organism: an egg fertilized in vitro; in vitro fertilization.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Within glass, that is, a test-tube: said of chemical reactions, bacterial cultures, etc., obtained experimentally in the test-tube as contrasted with those occurring in vivo, that is, within the living body.
Wiktionary
- adj. In an artificial environment outside the living organism.
- adv. In an artificial environment outside the living organism.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. in an artificial environment outside the living organism
- adj. in an artificial environment outside the living organism
Etymologies
- From Latin in vitro ("within the glass") (Wiktionary)
- New Latin in vitrō : Latin in, in + Latin vitrō, ablative of vitrum, glass. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“We're pacing an in vitro hepatoblastoma as it approaches pulmonary tissue.”
“Correlation of two-hybrid affinity data with in vitro measurements.”
“This high-tech but increasingly widespread practice has added a new twist to in vitro fertilization.”
“Fetal development identical to that observed in utero is obtained in vitro through four days post-fertilization with human egg and sperm, and with other vertebrates for much larger fractions of total gestation.”
“Frequency of drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum: a nonsynergistic combination of 5-fluoroorotate and atovaquone suppresses in vitro resistance.”
“An emergency C-section and subsequent transfusion had saved her life, but the scrawny baby had been in distress in vitro and had been fussy and colicky for the ï¬rst year of his life.”
“Diamond, Ethanol regulation of adenosine receptor-stimulated cAMP levels in a clonal neural cell line: an in vitro model of cellular tolerance to ethanol, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 83 1986: 2105-8.”
“Herz, Effects of chronic ethanol treatment on the in vitro biosynthesis of pro-opiomelanocortin and its posttranslational processing of beta-endorphin in the intermediate lobe of the rat pituitary, Journal of Neurochemistry 43 1984: 607-13.”
“Intracytoplasmic injection, or ICI, is an extension of current in vitro fertilization techniques.”
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Latin is, for all intents and purposes, a dead language. Yet its ghost continues to haunt those of us who speak English.
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