Medical Definition of Tissue culture
1.
| Originally the maintenance and growth of pieces of explanted tissue (plant or animal) in culture away from the source organism. Now usually refers to the (much more frequently used) technique of cell culture, using cells dispersed from tissues or distant descendants of such cells.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
|
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tissue Culture
Other Resources:
