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]

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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