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assisted reproductive technique
A set of clinical procedures and biomedical laboratory methodologies designed to intervene, optimize, or replace natural biological processes (such as ovulation, sperm capacitation, fertilization, and early embryonic development) to achieve a pregnancy. In clinical practice, they are classified according to complexity into: low complexity (timed intercourse, artificial insemination), where fertilization occurs in vivo; and high complexity (IVF, ICSI, blastocyst transfer), where fertilization and initial embryo culture are performed in vitro.
Grammatical category Noun
Field Assisted Reproductive Techniques
Level of specialization High
Definition source National Library of Medicine
Gender relationship No
Variants
Synonym
Formal
Hypernym
Formal
Equivalents

Spanish

técnica de reproducción asistida
Associated concepts
Type of
assisted reproductive technology
May cause
ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome; multiple pregnancy; treatment-related complications
Is accompanied by
ovarian stimulation; oocyte retrieval; fertilization; embryo culture; embryo transfer
Examples
Since we avoided the comparison with natural conception pregnancies, we excluded the bias of the assisted reproductive technique per se, avoiding then the hormone therapy or the cultures in the laboratory as an explanation of the difference in PE incidence. 
The indications to perform an assisted reproductive technique with donor oocytes have extended: to the classical ovarian failure [...] we have to add the repeated IVF failures with own oocytes, the genetic causes that discourage to use own's oocytes, and maybe the most common, ovarian aging. 
Collocations
WITH VERBS
associated with | related to || perform an assisted reproductive technique
WITH NOUNS
bias of the assisted reproductive technique