ectogenesis

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The development of an organism in an artificial environment outside the body in which it naturally grows. uncountable
    — If reproductive technology could offer some form of ectogenesis, would feminists regard it as a liberating reproductive option?

词源

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.
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