ectogenesis

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Etymology[edit]

From ecto- (outside-) +‎ -genesis. The modern biological sense was coined by British biologist J. B. S. Haldane in 1923 in the lecture that formed his 1924 book Daedalus; or, Science and the Future.

Noun[edit]

ectogenesis (uncountable)

  1. The development of an organism in an artificial environment outside the body in which it naturally grows.
    • 1992, Helen B. Holmes, Laura Martha Purdy, Feminist Perspectives in Medical Ethics, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 181:
      If reproductive technology could offer some form of ectogenesis, would feminists regard it as a liberating reproductive option?
    • 2010, Christopher Kaczor, The Ethics of Abortion, Routledge, →ISBN:
      Complete ectogenesis is already excluded. Partial ectogenesis is the continued development of an already generated human being in an artificial womb after transfer from a maternal womb.
    • 2012, Irina Aristarkhova, Hospitality of the Matrix, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 88:
      Ectogenesis is a genesis “outside” the maternal body. The “outside” can be artificial (machine), which I address in this chapter, or another bodily environment (man or animal), which I will address in the next chapter.

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