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organoid

organoid

8.6
A small, simple organ grown in a lab from stem cells to study disease or test medicines
  • noun
  • /ˈɔrɡəˌnɔɪd/
  • Specialized
translation icon : organoide
  • In the lab, they created organoids that mimic the function of various human organs for medical research.
  • cerebral organoids
  • brain organoids
  • human organoids

And so we expose a number of organoids to different levels of, of cortisol.

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Examples

  • The researcher observed the organoid developing into a structure similar to a human brain.

  • Scientists are using cerebral organoids to study the effects of neurodegenerative diseases.

  • The first thing I'd like to say is that an organoid, a brain organoid is not the same as a brain, OK?

  • So, so an alternative to all of the animal models is human organoids and, and those are getting increasingly accurate.

  • And so we expose a number of organoids to different levels of, of cortisol.

  • An exciting new area of research is related to the in vitro generation of organ-analogous structures called organoids 4, 29, 30.

    Academic text (2018)
  • And so another option is organs on chips or organoids to, you know, because they're not really fully physiological faithful.

  • Scientists call them organoids since they're like organs, and the weirdest of them all is the mini brain, or cerebral organoid.

  • Wasn't there research that cortical labs, your labs did with Johns Hopkin University here in the US regards organoid intelligence?

How Organ-Like

organ
473 2.6
organoid
  • Specialized
8.6
tissue
  • Specialized
470 3.2
cellular
2 4.8

Surface Forms

organoid singular
organoids plural

Morphology

organoid = organ (semi-transparent) = organ + oid

Formed from 'organ' + '-oid' meaning 'organ-like', but the specific biomedical sense 'a lab-grown miniature organ' is a specialized technical sense that may not be fully predictable to general learners.

Etymology

Organoid comes from organ 'body part' and the ending -oid 'like', so as a noun an organoid is a small model grown in a lab that is 'like' an organ and is used to study how organs work.