Crossword clues for test-tube baby
test-tube baby
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
test-tube baby
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Are we to understand you have made a test-tube baby?
▪ At one point we see a homunculus encased in a glass beaker, exactly like a test-tube baby.
▪ Nearly one child in 80 born in Britain is a test-tube baby.
▪ She had asked for a test-tube baby because her fallopian tubes were irreversibly blocked.
▪ What will happen. they ask, when the first defective test-tube baby is horn?
WordNet
test-tube baby
n. 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
Usage examples of "test-tube baby".
In 1986 she said of a test-tube baby case, `We really have no definition of mother in our law books.
The curious silence which had descended over this area of the research field was taken by many to be a sure sign that at any moment the world would be informed that the first test-tube baby was cutting its first tooth.