试管婴儿

試管嬰兒

shìguǎn yīng'ér

noun #43,222

Meanings

1 IVF baby
2 test-tube baby (child conceived via in-vitro fertilization)

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Examples

他们尝试了三次才成功做了试管婴儿。

Tāmen chángshì le sān cì cái chénggōng zuò le shìguǎnyīng'ér.

They tried three times before successfully doing IVF.

中国大陆第一个试管婴儿1988年出生。

Zhōngguó dàlù dìyī ge shìguǎnyīng'ér yī jiǔ bā bā nián chūshēng.

Mainland China's first IVF baby was born in 1988.

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usage

做试管婴儿 (to do IVF) is the standard verb phrase, often shortened to 做试管. Procedure terminology: 促排 (ovarian stimulation), 取卵 (egg retrieval), 胚胎移植 (embryo transfer).

history

The world's first IVF baby, Louise Brown, was born in the UK in 1978 (Chinese: 路易丝·布朗). China's first, 郑萌珠, was born in Beijing in 1988.

Stroke Order

试 shì

管 guǎn

婴 yīng

儿 ér