English Explanatory Dictionary

ectogenesis

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The development of an organism in an artificial environment outside the body in which it naturally grows.

Word forms

ectogenesis

Etymology

From ecto- (“outside-”) + -genesis. The modern biological sense was coined by British biologist J. B. S. Haldane in 1923 in the lecture that formed his 1924 book Daedalus; or, Science and the Future.

Related words

ectogenetic
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