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in vitro fertilization

(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

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

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in vitro fertilization (redirected from test-tube conception)

in vitro fertilization
(redirected from test-tube conception)