Hamster Egg Penetration Test (HEPT) is also known as the Hamster Test. This is the analysis of the human’s sperm fertilizing ability. It is conducted by the sperm penetration into the hamster egg and then its fertilization ability is being observed.
Hormones are the natural chemical substances, which every living organism produces. Some of the hormones take control over the egg’s development and release from the ovary during each menstrual cycle of a female. There are some natural and synthetic preparations of these hormones, which are used to increase the number of eggs, produced per one cycle.
Intended Parents are people, usually forming a married couple, who can not have babies, and for whom a donor woman gives her egg to, or a surrogate mother bears the pregnancy and delivers the baby.
Intra Cytoplasm Sperm Injection (ICSI) is a kind of a micromanipulation technique. This procedure is a variation of In Vitro Fertilization treatment. It is the process of a single sperm introduction into the inner cellular structure of a woman’s egg. It is done with the help of a needle. This procedure usually applied for those couples, in which the man’s sperm is severely impaired or when there is few of it.
Intrauterine Insemination is the process, when the man’s sperm is inseminated into the uterus of a woman.
In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) is a kind of fertilization, when eggs and sperm are gathered and put together to get fertilized outside of a woman’s uterus. After the fertilization takes place, up to three of the resulting embryos are transferred into the woman’s uterus, where there is a possibility of at least one of the embryos further development. Sometimes all three embryos can begin to develop, and then a woman will deliver three babies at a time.
Laparoscopy is the kind of a surgical procedure, thanks to which doctors can look what is going on inside the pelvic cavity. To conduct it, a small cut is usually made below the navel, where a tiny optical instrument is inserted. This procedure is conducted under a general anesthetic. During the process of egg collection the Laparoscopy method is usually applied.
Late Onset Disorder is a kind of disorder, which may get revealed in an adult life.
Live Birth is the delivery of one or more babies at a time.
Live Birth Rate is the amount of babies alive, achieved from every 100 treatment cycles commenced.
Male Factor covers any possible reason of the man’s sperm low efficiency or fertilization incapability. It also includes the viable sperm or its complete absence, and a failed reversal of a vasectomy procedure.
Menstrual Cycle takes place in a woman’s organism every month. During this period the egg gets released from one of the ovaries, and the uterus gets ready to receive the fertilized egg. If a pregnancy does not occur, blood and tissue come out through the vagina.
Micromanipulation is any kind of In Vitro Fertilization technique, which bypasses the zona pellucida (the protein shell), surrounding the egg, because this usually prevents the sperm with a poor motility or morphology from getting into an egg and, thus, from fertilizing it. Intro Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection is the most widespread micromanipulation method.
Microsurgical Epididymal Sperm Aspiration (MESA) is the process of the sperm retrieving right from the epididy.
Miscarriage is complete loss of pregnancy before the 24th week of an embryo’s development.
Monogenic Disorders is such a kind of disorders, the result of which becomes a single defected gene.
Multiple Birth is the delivery of more than one baby form one pregnancy.
Multiple Birth Rate is the percentage of all birth, in which two or more babies were delivered.
Multiple Pregnancy is a kind of pregnancy, during which two or more embryos are developing.
Muscular Dystrophy is a kind of the condition, in which muscles waste away slowly. It is usually inherited.
Mutation is called any change in any gene or chromosome, which usually causes a disorder, or at least it may cause the inherited susceptibility to some kind of a disorder.
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