in vitro fertilization (redirected from test-tube conception)

in vitro fertilization

n

(Medicine) 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 Abbreviation IVF

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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.

Translations

in vitro fertilization n (Med) → fecondazione f in vitro

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in vitro fertilization n (Med) → fecondazione f in vitro