IN VITRO FERTILIZATION Definition & Meaning

in vitro fertilization

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a specialized technique by which an ovum, especially a human one, is fertilized by sperm outside the body, with the resulting embryo later implanted in the uterus for gestation.

in vitro fertilization

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IVF.��a technique enabling some women who are unable to conceive to bear children. Egg cells removed from a woman's ovary are fertilized by sperm in vitro; some of the resulting fertilized egg cells are incubated until the blastocyst stage, which are then implanted into her uterus

in vitro fertilization

Fertilization of an egg outside the body of a female by the addition of sperm, as a means of producing a zygote.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of in vitro fertilization¹

First recorded in 1970–75

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In what Abdallah described as a series of miracles, nobody was in the clinic last Saturday morning and its in vitro fertilization lab remained intact despite the mighty force of the explosion.

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There was extensive damage to American Reproductive Centers, a fertility clinic and in vitro fertilization lab across the street from Desert Regional Medical Center.

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Photos from the scene showed extensive damage to American Reproductive Centers, a fertility clinic and in vitro fertilization lab across the street from Desert Regional Medical Center.

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Clinics can lower the risk of miscarriages among women age 40 from 50% to 10% by conducting genetic tests on embryos created with in vitro fertilization before they are implanted, she said.

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In my reporting for a recent story on in vitro fertilization, patients told me again and again that they had assumed that IVF was a “guarantee.”

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