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Topic: HUMAN

Date: 1900-2000
Language: Latin
Origin: in vitro 'in glass'

in vitro fertilization

 noun
     
in vi‧tro fer‧ti‧li‧za‧tion [uncountable] technical
M a process in which a human egg is fertilized outside a woman's body
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