donor egg
Contributed reproductive cell
A donor egg is an egg cell provided by one woman to be fertilized and implanted in another woman who cannot produce viable eggs herself.
The procedure allows the recipient to carry and give birth to a child who is not genetically hers: They conceived their daughter using a donor egg.
The term appears in fertility medicine and discussions of assisted reproduction.
- fertilityCapacity for reproduction
- IVFLaboratory-aided conception method
- embryoOrganism before birth
- recipientOne who receives something
- two week waitTime before pregnancy test
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- fertilityfertility, fecundity, infertility, conception, reproduction
- surrogacysurrogate, surrogate mother, gestational surrogacy, gestational carrier, surrogate birth