Laboratory Procedure
tissue culture
tis·sue cul·ture
Definitions related to tissue culture:
  • (culturing) The act of maintaining and/or attempting to grow explanted cells in an in vitro environment.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
  • 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.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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