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ectogenesis Biol.|ɛktəʊˈdʒɛnɪsɪs|
[mod.L.: see ecto- and genesis.]
The production of structures or bodies outside the organism. So ectogenetic |ɛktəʊdʒɪˈnɛtɪk|, ectogenic |ɛktəʊˈdʒɛnɪk|, ectogenous |ɛkˈtɒdʒɪnəs| adjs., pertaining to ectogenesis, producing or produced from without.
1883D. Macalister tr. Ziegler's Path. Anat. i. 291 Some of the pathogenous bacteria are accustomed to develope and multiply without the body, while others only do so within it. The former kind we may describe as ectogenous, the latter as endogenous. Ibid., Sometimes the ectogenous bacteria proceed to multiply within the body. 1900B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms 83/2 Ectogenic. 1909Cent. Dict. Suppl., Ectogenesis, the production of or the giving rise to structures from without. 1923Haldane Daedalus (1924) 63 It was in 1951 that Dupont and Schwarz produced the first ectogenetic child. Ibid. 64 France was the first country to adopt ectogenesis officially, and by 1968 was producing 60,000 children annually by this method. 1926Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Oct. 710/4 Mr. Shaw's affinities..are with the biological school, whose most startling forecast, so far, is Mr. Haldane's ectogenetic baby. 1930Ibid. 24 Apr. 11 By the twenty-first century science will have solved the problem of ectogenesis, will be able, that is to say, to develop a human infant from a fertilized cell by laboratory methods. 1957I. Asimov Naked Sun (1958) xviii. 223 Dr. Delamarre himself was planning a future in which ectogenesis would be possible and marriage unnecessary. |