organotypicadj.
/ɔːˌɡanə(ʊ)ˈtɪpɪk/, /ˌɔːɡənə(ʊ)ˈtɪpɪk/, /ˌɔːɡn̩ə(ʊ)ˈtɪpɪk/, U.S. /ˈˌɔrɡənoʊˈtɪpɪk/, /ɔrˌɡænoʊˈtɪpɪk/ Biology.
Typical or characteristic of an organ or type of tissue; spec. (of cells or tissue in culture) exhibiting differentiation characteristic of the parent organ.
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1918 Amer. Naturalist 52 4 Biologically speaking, protection may be divided into types—cytotypic,..organotypic, systemotypic, organismotypic, [etc.].
1925 A. Maximow in Contrib. Embryol. 16 56 In his experiments..the explants never showed ‘controlled’ (organotypic) growth.
1956 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 42 827 Those injected cells which had escaped from the embryo and become lodged on the yolk sac produced formations of great complexity and a high degree of histiotypic and organotypic differentiation.
1966 Science 20 Aug. 1384/3 The effect can be demonstrated and quantitated in organotypic cultures of embryonic bones.
1976 Jrnl. Neurobiol. 7 495 These cultures exhibit extensive neurite growth from two neuronal types, have organotypic ultrastructure, and contain electrically active cells.
1999 Nature 6 May 19/3 Engert and Bonhoeffer used an organotypic preparation, in which a thin slice of the hippocampus is cultured for several days.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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