tissue culture

noun

: the process or technique of making body tissue grow in a culture medium outside the organism
also : a culture of tissue (such as epithelium)

Examples of tissue culture in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web This was done by incubating the patient's cells with DNA extracted from a donor with normal hemoglobin in tissue culture. William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024 So far, researchers have failed to grow them in the lab outside of their host vine—and they cannot be propagated using usual techniques like cuttings, seeds or tissue culture, as Erika Marie Bascos, a biologist at the University of the Philippines, told Mongabay’s Mikael Francisco in July. Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Sep. 2023 Most of the major growers now mass produce this plant from tissue culture, although not every batch of plants will produce the same levels of variegation. Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 11 Aug. 2023 The first problem was that there was no method at the time to grow HPV in tissue cultures. Brian Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2023 See all Example Sentences for tissue culture 

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Word History

First Known Use

1912, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of tissue culture was in 1912

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“Tissue culture.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tissue%20culture. Accessed 6 Oct. 2024.

Medical Definition

tissue culture

noun
: the process or technique of making body tissue grow in a culture medium outside the organism
also : a culture of tissue (as epithelium)

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