Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb & adjective In an artificial environment outside a living organism.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Within glass, that is, a test-tube: said of chemical reactions, bacterial cultures, etc., obtained experimentally in the test-tube as contrasted with those occurring in vivo, that is, within the living body.
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- adjective In an artificial environment outside the living organism.
- adverb In an artificial environment outside the living organism.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in an artificial environment outside the living organism
- adjective in an artificial environment outside the living organism
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin in vitrō : Latin in, in + Latin vitrō, ablative of vitrum, glass.]
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From Latin in vitro ("within the glass")
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