test-tube baby

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ˈtest-tube ˌbaby noun [countable]  HBHMBa baby that develops from an egg removed from a woman’s body, that is then put back inside the woman to continue developing 试管婴儿

Examples from the Corpus

test-tube baby• She had asked for a test-tube baby because her fallopian tubes were irreversibly blocked.• Nearly one child in 80 born in Britain is a test-tube baby.• At one point we see a homunculus encased in a glass beaker, exactly like a test-tube baby.• Are we to understand you have made a test-tube baby?• What will happen. they ask, when the first defective test-tube baby is horn?

ˈtest-tube ˌbaby nounChineseSyllable  

an egg develops from a that baby Corpus

test-tube baby
ˈtest-tube ˌbaby noun [countable]
a baby that develops from an egg removed from a woman’s body, that is then put back inside the woman to continue developing

test-tube babyBrE /ˈtest tjuːb beɪbi/ 🔊NAmE /ˈtest tuːb beɪbi/ 🔊 nouna baby that grows from an egg that is fertilized outside the mother's body and then put back inside to continue developing normally 试管婴儿  ➡  see also in vitro