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test-tube baby

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test-tube baby
n.
A baby developed from an egg that was fertilized outside the body and then implanted in the uterus.

test-tube baby
A term gestational product resulting from in vitro fertilization of an egg implanted in a uterus and carried to term by either the genetic mother or by a surrogate–gestational mother. See Artificial reproduction, Baby M, in vitro reproduction, Surrogate motherhood.


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The former Yugoslav republic's original legislation dated back to 1978, the year that the world's first test-tube baby was born.
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