assisted reproductive technologies
procedures that replace a gait or provide a uterus to help people with fertility have children
gamete intrafallopian transfer
an infertility treatment in which sperm and oocytes are placed in a woman’s uterine tube
in vitro fertilization
placing oocytes and sperm in a laboratory dish with appropriate biochemicals, so that fertilization occurs then after a few cell divisions, transferring the embryos to a woman’s uterus
infertility
The inability to conceive a child after a year of frequent unprotected intercourse
intracytoplasmic sperm injection
in infertility treatment that injects a sperm cell nucleus into an oocyte to overcome a low sperm count or many at typically shaped or non-motile sperm
intrauterine insemination
an infertility treatment that places donor sperm in the cervix or uterus
preimplantation genetic diagnosis
removing a cell from a cleavage stage, embryo or blastocyst and testing it for a mutation to deduce the genotype of the embryo
sequential polar body analysis
testing the DNA of a second polar body to infer the genotype of its associated, fertilized ovum
zygote intrafallopian transfer
an assisted reproductive technology in which an over fertilized in vitro is placed in a woman’s uterine tube
