# ectogenesis

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. The development of an organism in an artificial environment outside the body in which it naturally grows.

## Etymology
From ecto- (“outside-”) + -genesis. The modern biological sense was coined by British biologist J. B. S. Haldane in 1923 in the lecture that formed his 1924 book Daedalus; or, Science and the Future.

## Source
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