IN VITRO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does in vitro mean? 

• IN VITRO (adjective)
  The adjective IN VITRO has 1 sense:

1. of a biological process occurring in an artificial environment outside the living organism

  Familiarity information: IN VITRO used as an adjective is very rare.

• IN VITRO (adverb)
  The adverb IN VITRO has 1 sense:

1. in an artificial environment outside the living organism

  Familiarity information: IN VITRO used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IN VITRO (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of a biological process occurring in an artificial environment outside the living organism

Synonyms:

ex vivo; in vitro

Context example:

in vitro fertilization

Antonym:

in vivo (of a biological process occurring within a living organism)

• IN VITRO (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an artificial environment outside the living organism

Synonyms:

ex vivo; in vitro

Context example:

an egg fertilized in vitro

Pertainym:

in vitro (of a biological process occurring in an artificial environment outside the living organism)

 Context examples 

Techniques using equipment such as a hollow fiber apparatus or roller bottles for high volume maintenance or growth of animal, plant, or insect cells in vitro.

(Biotechnology, Mass Cell Culture, NCI Thesaurus)

In vitro, this preparation has been shown to induce cell cycle arrest and caspase-dependent apoptosis of estrogen-sensitive breast cancer cells.

(Black cohosh, NCI Thesaurus)

Monoclonal antibody 2A11 has been shown to decrease the growth of SCLC cells in vitro and in animal models.

(Monoclonal Antibody 2A11, NCI Thesaurus)

Immunostimulant which shows therapeutic effects in tumor models and experimental infections in vitro, enhancing T lymphocyte transformation and phagocytosis.

(Azimexon, NCI Thesaurus)

If that means going to a fertility doctor to start a series of tests or in vitro fertility treatments, then do it in the days or weeks that follow this new moon.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

An in vitro test to assess the ability of peripheral blood mononuclear cells to proliferate in response to specific antigen stimulus.

(Antigen Proliferation Assay, NCI Thesaurus)

Apolizumab induces complement-mediated cytotoxicity, antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity, and apoptosis of 1D10 antigen-positive B cells in vitro.

(Apolizumab, NCI Thesaurus)

In vitro and in vivo studies have shown that heat-killed Mw can induce significant T-cell responses.

(Mycobacterium w, NCI Thesaurus)

This agent seems to decrease the expression of various proangiogenic CXCL chemokines in vitro and may have synergistic effects with radiotherapy or chemotherapy.

(Naphthalimide Analogue UNBS5162, NCI Thesaurus)

Pasireotide activates a broad spectrum of somatostatin receptors, exhibiting a much higher binding affinity for somatostatin receptors 1, 3, and 5 than octreotide in vitro, as well as a comparable binding affinity for somatostatin receptor 2.

(Pasireotide, NCI Thesaurus)