what does test-tube baby mean?
TEST-TUBE BABY as NOUN
- Meaning
- a baby conceived by fertilization that occurs outside the mother’’s body
- the woman’’s ova are removed and mixed with sperm in a culture medium – if fertilization occurs the blastocyte is implanted in the woman’’s uterus
Hypernyms(s) test-tube baby is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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