Biofabrication holds the potential to generate constructs that more closely recapitulate the complexity and heterogeneity of tissues and organs than do currently available regenerative medicine therapies. Such constructs can be applied for tissue regeneration or as in vitro 3D models. Biofabrication is maturing and growing, and scientists with different backgrounds are joining this field, underscoring the need for unity regarding the use of terminology. We therefore believe that there is a compelling need to clarify the relationship between the different concepts, technologies, and descriptions of biofabrication that are often used interchangeably or inconsistently in the current literature. Our objective is to provide a guide to the terminology for different technologies in the field which may serve as a reference for the biofabrication community.

与目前可用的再生医学疗法相比，生物制造具有产生能够更紧密地概括组织和器官的复杂性和异质性的结构的潜力。此类构建体可用于组织再生或体外3D模型。生物制造技术正在日趋成熟和发展，具有不同背景的科学家也加入了这一领域，这凸显了在术语使用方面必须团结一致的需要。因此，我们认为迫切需要澄清在当前文献中经常互换使用或不一致使用的生物制造的不同概念，技术和描述之间的关系。我们的目标是为该领域的不同技术提供术语指南，以作为生物制造界的参考。