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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Related topics: Birth, Biology
test-tube babyˈtest-tube ˌbaby noun [countable] HBHMBa baby that develops from an egg removed from a woman’s body, that is then put back inside the woman to continue developing
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test-tube baby• She had asked for a test-tube baby because her fallopian tubes were irreversibly blocked.• Nearly one child in 80 born in Britain is a test-tube baby.• At one point we see a homunculus encased in a glass beaker, exactly like a test-tube baby.• Are we to understand you have made a test-tube baby?• What will happen. they ask, when the first defective test-tube baby is horn?
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