Biofabrication

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The practice encompasses the engineering of biological materials through the utilization of living cells to produce various structures
2. This technique involves constructing organic products by manipulating biological components for diverse applications
3. The creation of biological constructs by assembling living cells to form functional materials

Etymology: Biofabrication is a plain compound: "bio-", from Greek "bios" meaning "life", joined to "fabrication", from Latin "fabricatio", a making or constructing. Put together, the word describes the production of biological materials, such as tissues, cells or structures built from living components, rather than the manufacture of ordinary inert goods. The "fabrication" half carries the older sense. Latin "fabrica" meant a workshop or the skilled work done in one, and it came to English through Old French with the sense of constructing something by craft or labour. Attaching "bio-" to it produces a term whose logic is transparent: making things out of life itself.