Ex vivo (Latin: "out of the living") literally means that which takes place outside an organism.
[2] In science, ex vivo refers to experimentation or measurements done in or on tissue from an organism in an external environment with minimal alteration of natural conditions.
[2] A primary advantage of using ex vivo tissues is the ability to perform tests or measurements that would otherwise not be possible or ethical in living subjects.
One widely performed ex vivo study is the chick chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) assay.
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