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in vitro

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See also: invitro and in-vitro

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin in vitro (within the glass), from vitrum (glass).

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in vitro (not comparable)

  1. In an artificial environment outside the living organism.
    • 2017 March 21, Carl Zimmer, “A New Form of Stem-Cell Engineering Raises Ethical Questions”, in The New York Times[1], archived from the original on 2017-03-23:
      In recent years, scientists have moved beyond in vitro fertilization. They are starting to assemble stem cells that can organize themselves into embryolike structures.

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in vitro (not comparable)

  1. In an artificial environment outside the living organism.

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin in vitro.

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in vitro

  1. in vitro

Interlingua

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Phrase

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in vitro

  1. in vitro

Italian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Latin in vitrō (literally in glass).

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  • IPA(key): /in ˈvi.tro/
  • Hyphenation: in‧vì‧tro

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in vitro (invariable)

  1. in vitro
    Synonym: in provetta

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Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Latin in vitro.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /inˈvi.trɔ/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -itrɔ
  • Syllabification: [please specify syllabification manually]

Adjective

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in vitro (not comparable, no derived adverb)

  1. (biology, medicine) in vitro

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in vitro (not comparable)

  1. (biology, medicine) in vitro

Further reading

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  • in vitro in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • in vitro in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Latin in vitrō (literally in glass).

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in vitro (invariable)

  1. (higher register) in vitro
    Antonym: in vivo
    • 2001 October, Edenio Detmann et al., “Cromo e indicadores internos na determinação do consumo de novilhos mestiços, suplementados, a pasto [Chromium and internal markers in intake determination by crossbred steers, supplemented at pasture]”, in Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia, volume 30, number 5, Viçosa: Sociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia; UFV, →DOI, page 1601, column 2:
      Assim, a técnica in vitro não seria considerada adequada para ser utilizada como indicador de digestibilidade na determinação do consumo a pasto.
      Thus, the in vitro techinique wouldn't be deemed appropriate to be used as a digestibility marker for determining pasture consumption.

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in vitro

  1. (higher register) in vitro
    Antonym: in vivo
    • 2016, “Desafios da extração do RNA do vírus da dengue” (chapter 25), in Rodrigo Ribeiro Resende, Carlos Ricardo Soccol, editors, Biotecnologia aplicada à agro&indústria: fundamentos e aplicações, volume 4, São Paulo: Blucher, →ISBN, Possibilidades terapêuticas e/ou industriais (section 25.11), page 956:
      O isolamento da transcriptase reversa de um retrovírus [] permitiu que a transcrição reversa fosse feita in vitro, em uma etapa anterior à PCR, a qual, então, amplifica o DNA.
      The isolation of a retrovirus reverse transcriptase allowed for the reverse transcription to be made in vitro, at a step before the PCR, which, then, aplifies the DNA.

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˌim ˈbitɾo/ [ˌĩm ˈbi.t̪ɾo]
  • Syllabification: in vi‧tro

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in vitro (invariable)

  1. in vitro (in an artificial environment, outside the living organism)

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