Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·latin ·1880s
In vitro
from in vitro
- Meaning
- In glass — biological processes performed in laboratory glassware.
- Source word
- in vitro
- Route into English
- Late-19th-c. scientific Latin → English medical vocabulary; in-vitro fertilisation (1978, Brown baby) made the term household.
- Arrived
- 1880s
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