ectogenesis
/ek-toh-jen-uh-sis/US // ˌɛk toʊˈdʒɛn ə sɪs //UK // (ˌɛktəʊˈdʒɛnəsɪs) //
外生症,外生性,外植体形成,外植体生成
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
Biology.
- : development outside the body, as of an embryo in an artificial environment.
Examples
The technology behind ectogenesis, as feminist journalist Soraya Chemaly notes, has been in development for at least a decade.
Soraya Chemaly already predicted this particularly “surreal” argument in her initial report on ectogenesis.
In America: The National Catholic Review, for example, John Nassivera solemnly intones that ectogenesis is “a very serious thing.”
The feminist rationale for ectogenesis seems to practically write itself.
These portentous rumblings aside, no coherent position on ectogenesis has emerged so far within the pro-life movement.
Plate has recently given this "definitely directed variation" the name of ectogenetic orthogenesis, or, briefly, ectogenesis.
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