surrogate mother

1. A woman who agrees, usually for pay, to give birth to a child resulting from artificial insemination or the implantation of an already fertilized egg and who surrenders any parental rights to a third party.

2. One that acts as, serves as, or is a mother substitute.

surrogate motherhood n.

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surrogate mother

(Medicine) a woman who bears a child on behalf of a couple unable to have a child, either by artificial insemination from the man or implantation of an embryo from the woman

surrogacy n

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sur′rogate moth′er

1. a person who acts in the place of another person's biological mother.

a. a woman who helps a couple to have a child by carrying to term an embryo conceived by the couple and transferred to her uterus; gestational carrier.

b. a woman who helps a couple to have a child by being inseminated with the man's sperm and either donating the embryo for transfer to the woman's uterus or carrying it to term.

[1975–80]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

surrogate mother - a woman who bears a child for a couple where the wife is unable to do so; "a surrogate mother is artificially inseminated with the father's semen and carries the fetus to term"

female parent, mother - a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother); "the mother of three children"

Translations

أُمٌّ بَدِيلَة

náhradní matka

rugemorsurrogatmor

Ersatzmutter Leihmutter

ανάδοχη μητέρα

madre de alquiler madre sustituta

kohdunvuokraaja

mère porteuse

surogatna majka

béranya

locatrice di gravidanza madre surrogata

代理母

대리모

draagmoeder

surrogatmor

matka zastępcza

mãe de aluguel mãe de aluguer

суррогатная мать

náhradná matka

surrogatmamma

ผู้หญิงที่รับอุ้มท้องแทน

taşıyıcı anne

người mẹ đẻ thay

代孕母亲养母

surrogate mother

n → madre f biologica

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

surrogate

(ˈsarəgeit) noun

a person or thing that is considered or used as a substitute for another person or thing.

surrogate ˈmother noun

a woman who has a baby for another woman who is unable to have babies.

surrogate mother

→ أُمٌّ بَدِيلَة náhradní matka rugemor Leihmutter ανάδοχη μητέρα madre de alquiler, madre sustituta kohdunvuokraaja mère porteuse surogatna majka madre surrogata 代理母 대리모 draagmoeder surrogatmor matka zastępcza mãe de aluguel, mãe de aluguer суррогатная мать surrogatmamma ผู้หญิงที่รับอุ้มท้องแทน taşıyıcı anne người mẹ đẻ thay 代孕母亲

Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009

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T he proposed law is silent on crucial aspects like: 1) rights of the child if the adoptive-parents reject it mid-way or after birth; 2) rights of the surrogate mother if she faces health issues during and after pregnancy; 3) Rights of the family of surrogate mother if she loses life in the process of child birth; 4) Mandatory time period (spacing out) between previous pregnancy and the current one for the surrogate mother; 5) Couples who marry late in life (after 40s); 6) single women who do not want to marry but want to be mother nevertheless.

Surrogacy's Silent Woes

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