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Organovo Holdings, Inc. – ‘10-Q’ for 9/30/14 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On:  Friday, 11/7/14, at 5:05pm ET   ·   For:  9/30/14   ·   Accession #:  1193125-14-403624   ·   File #:  1-35996

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  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size             Issuer                      Filing Agent

11/07/14  Organovo Holdings, Inc.           10-Q        9/30/14   48:3.2M                                   Donnelley … Solutions/FA

Quarterly Report   —   Form 10-Q   —   Sect. 13 / 15(d) – SEA’34
Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 10-Q        Quarterly Report                                    HTML    240K 
 2: EX-31.1     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     24K 
 3: EX-31.2     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     24K 
 4: EX-32.1     Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     18K 
30: R1          Document and Entity Information                     HTML     39K 
23: R2          Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets               HTML    103K 
28: R3          Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets               HTML     28K 
                (Parenthetical)                                                  
32: R4          Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of      HTML     56K 
                Operations                                                       
44: R5          Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of      HTML     95K 
                Cash Flows                                                       
24: R6          Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of      HTML     23K 
                Cash Flows (Parenthetical)                                       
27: R7          Description of Business and Summary of Significant  HTML     65K 
                Accounting Policies                                              
21: R8          Derivative Liability                                HTML     36K 
15: R9          Stockholders' Equity                                HTML     73K 
45: R10         Commitments and Contingencies                       HTML     37K 
34: R11         Concentrations                                      HTML     22K 
33: R12         Recent Accounting Pronouncements                    HTML     26K 
38: R13         Subsequent Events                                   HTML     20K 
39: R14         Description of Business and Summary of Significant  HTML    131K 
                Accounting Policies (Policies)                                   
37: R15         Description of Business and Summary of Significant  HTML     33K 
                Accounting Policies (Tables)                                     
40: R16         Derivative Liability (Tables)                       HTML     29K 
29: R17         Stockholders' Equity (Tables)                       HTML     54K 
31: R18         Commitments and Contingencies (Tables)              HTML     24K 
36: R19         Description of Business and Summary of Significant  HTML     64K 
                Accounting Policies - Additional Information                     
                (Detail)                                                         
48: R20         Description of Business and Summary of Significant  HTML     28K 
                Accounting Policies - Estimated Fair Values of                   
                Liabilities Measured on Recurring Basis (Detail)                 
42: R21         Description of Business and Summary of Significant  HTML     36K 
                Accounting Policies - Activity for Liabilities                   
                Measured at Estimated Fair Value Using                           
                Unobservable Inputs (Detail)                                     
25: R22         Derivative Liability - Additional Information       HTML     32K 
                (Detail)                                                         
35: R23         Derivative Liability - Assumptions Used to Value    HTML     32K 
                Derivative Liabilities at Closing Dates of Private               
                Placements (Detail)                                              
26: R24         Stockholders' Equity - Additional Information       HTML    117K 
                (Detail)                                                         
13: R25         Stockholders' Equity - Summary of Company's         HTML     28K 
                Restricted Stock Award Activity (Detail)                         
43: R26         Stockholders' Equity - Additional Information 1     HTML     51K 
                (Detail)                                                         
46: R27         Stockholders' Equity - Summary of Stock Option      HTML     54K 
                Activity (Detail)                                                
18: R28         Stockholders' Equity - Fair Value of Employee       HTML     32K 
                Stock Options (Detail)                                           
17: R29         Stockholders' Equity - Additional Information 2     HTML     91K 
                (Detail)                                                         
19: R30         Stockholders' Equity - Summary of Warrant Activity  HTML     40K 
                (Detail)                                                         
20: R31         Stockholders' Equity - Common Stock Reserved for    HTML     22K 
                Future Issuance (Detail)                                         
22: R32         Commitments and Contingencies - Additional          HTML     42K 
                Information (Detail)                                             
12: R33         Commitments and Contingencies - Future Minimum      HTML     33K 
                Rental Payments Required under Operating Leases                  
                that have Initial or Remaining Non-Cancelable                    
                Lease Terms in Excess of One Year (Detail)                       
41: R34         Subsequent Events - Additional Information          HTML     19K 
                (Detail)                                                         
47: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML     73K 
11: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX    109K 
16: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports (.xls)            XLS    408K 
 5: EX-101.INS  XBRL Instance -- onvo-20140930                       XML    695K 
 7: EX-101.CAL  XBRL Calculations -- onvo-20140930_cal               XML    120K 
 8: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- onvo-20140930_def                XML    302K 
 9: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- onvo-20140930_lab                     XML    791K 
10: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- onvo-20140930_pre              XML    556K 
 6: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- onvo-20140930                         XSD    101K 
14: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0001193125-14-403624-xbrl      Zip    100K

‘EX-101.DEF’   —   XBRL Definitions — onvo-20140930_def

This Exhibit is an XBRL XML File.

                                                                                                                                                                                
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