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

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

Advertisement The first problem was that there was no method at the time to grow HPV in tissue cultures. —Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 31 May 2023

In tissue culture will update in a bit. —BostonGlobe.com, 28 Jan. 2023

These bananas are sterile and dependent on propagation via cloning, either by using suckers and cuttings taken from the underground stem or through modern tissue culture. —Discover Magazine, 23 Nov. 2016

Scientists hope to one day create synthetic mucins for both research and treatment and have put quite a bit of work into developing tissue culture for their production. —Diana Kwon, Discover Magazine, 9 July 2019

There has been some success with breeding somoclones, a type of genetic variation caused by tissue culture cultivation. —Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 27 Dec. 2017

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Word History

First Known Use

1912, in the meaning defined above

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)