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in vi·tro    Audio Help   [in vee-troh] Pronunciation Key
–noun
(of a biological process) made to occur in a laboratory vessel or other controlled experimental environment rather than within a living organism or natural setting.
Compare in vivo.

[Origin: 1890–95; < L in vitrō lit., in glass]
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in vi·tro    Audio Help   (ĭn vē'trō)  Pronunciation Key 
adv.   & adj.
In an artificial environment outside the living organism: an egg fertilized in vitro; in vitro fertilization.


[New Latin in vitrō : Latin in, in + Latin vitrō, ablative of vitrum, glass.]

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in vitro

adjective
1. in an artificial environment outside the living organism; "in vitro fertilization" [ant: in vivo] 

adverb
1. in an artificial environment outside the living organism; "an egg fertilized in vitro" 

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in vitro    Audio Help   (ĭn vē'trō)  Pronunciation Key 
In an artificial environment, such as a test tube. Compare in vivo.

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in vitro [(in vee-troh)]

In the laboratory; literally, “in glass” (laboratory experiments are often carried out in glass containers). In vitro conditions are distinguished from conditions that actually apply in nature. (Compare in vivo.)

Note: In vitro appears in the expression in vitro fertilization, a way of producing human embryos in a laboratory.

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