saviour sibling

noun

单词	saviour sibling
释义	saviour sibling noun DEFINITIONS1 1 a child born with genetic characteristics specifically designed to treat the illness of an existing brother or sister A nine year old girl from Norfolk has had a life-saving transplant from a so-called saviour sibling. Submitted by: Kerry from United Kingdom on 16/03/2016 Open Dictionary - March2016 Featured as a BuzzWord! The term saviour sibling featured in an October 2002 article by M. Spriggs and J. Savulescu in the Journal of Medical Ethics. The phrase belongs to the terminology of what has in recent years been coined as reprogenetics, the use of genetic techniques to control the reproductive process. The related adjective reprogenetic also exists. Read more Noun☞saviour sibling
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