donor sperm
Contributed male cells
Donor sperm is semen provided by a man other than a woman's partner for artificial insemination or in vitro fertilization.
The donor may be anonymous through a sperm bank or known to the recipient.
They decided to use donor sperm after learning about his infertility.
The resulting child is biologically related to the donor, not the partner.
- fertility treatmentMedical help conceiving
- artificial inseminationMedical sperm introduction procedure
- cryopreservationLow-temperature biological preservation
- surrogacyBearing child for others
- genetic privacyProtection of hereditary information
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- fertilityfertility, fecundity, infertility, conception, reproduction
- Infertilityinfertility, male infertility, PCOS, endometriosis, blocked tubes
- male infertilityhypogonadism
- surrogacysurrogate, surrogate mother, gestational surrogacy, gestational carrier, surrogate birth