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*AKA* –>
‘fertilization’
‘IVF’
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*latin* –> “in glass”
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*”in vitro fertilization” is a process by which an ‘egg’ is fertilized by ‘sperm’ outside the body in vitro*
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(the process involves ‘monitoring’ + ‘stimulating’ a woman’s ‘ovulatory process’, removing an ‘ovum’ or ‘ova’ (egg or eggs) from the woman’s ‘ovaries’ and letting ‘sperm’ fertilize them in a ‘liquid’ in a ‘laboratory’)
(the ‘fertilized egg’ (aka ‘zygote’) is cultured for 2–6 days in a ‘growth medium’ and is then transferred to the same or another woman’s ‘uterus’, with the intention of establishing a successful pregnancy)
(IVF is a type of ‘assisted reproductive technology’ used for ‘infertility treatment’ and ‘gestational surrogacy’, in which a fertilized egg is implanted into a surrogate’s uterus, and the resulting child is genetically unrelated to the ‘surrogate’)
(some countries banned or otherwise regulate the availability of “IVF treatment”, giving rise to ‘fertility tourism’)
(restrictions on availability of ‘IVF’ include costs and age to carry a healthy pregnancy to term)
(‘IVF’ is mostly attempted if less invasive or expensive options have failed or are unlikely to work)
(the first successful birth of a “test tube baby”, ‘louise brown’, occurred in 1978)
(englishwoman)
(alive to this day!)
(6 years older than i)
(‘louise brown’ was born as a result of “natural cycle IVF” where no stimulation was made)
(‘robert g. edwards’ was awarded the ‘nobel prize’ in ‘physiology’ or ‘medicine’ in 2010, the ‘physiologist’ who co-developed the treatment together with ‘patrick steptoe’; ‘steptoe’ was not eligible for consideration as the ‘nobel prize’ is not awarded posthumously)
(with ‘egg donation’ and ‘IVF’, women who are past their reproductive years or have reached ‘menopause’ can still become ‘pregnant’)
(‘adriana iliescu’ held the record as the oldest woman to give birth using IVF and ‘donated egg’, when she ‘gave birth’ in ‘2004’ at the ‘age of 66’, a record passed in ‘2006’)
(after the ‘IVF treatment’ many couples are able to get pregnant without any ‘fertility treatments’)
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(in ‘2012’, it was estimated that ‘5 million children’ had been born worldwide using ‘IVF’ and other ‘assisted reproduction techniques’)
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*👨🔬🕵️♀️🙇♀️*SKETCHES*🙇♂️👩🔬🕵️♂️*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥