NEOTERMED: Vocabulario de reproducción asistida

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Gamete intrafallopian transfer (GIFT) is a technique where the gametes (egg and sperm) are placed directly into the fallopian tubes by laparoscopy. Fertilisation does not take place in the laboratory as with intrauterine embryo transfer.

Grammatical category	Noun
Field	Assisted Reproductive Techniques
Level of specialization	High
Definition source	Reproducción Asistida ORG
Gender relationship	Yes, woman

Variants

Hypernym

assisted reproduction technique

Formal

Synonym

gamete intrafallopian transfer

Formal

Equivalents

Spanish

GIFT

Transferencia intratubárica de gametos (GIFT, por sus siglas en inglés).

Valenciano

GIFT

Associated concepts

Is accompanied by

ovarian stimulation; oocyte retrieval; sperm preparation; laparoscopic transfer

Examples

Other techniques used to achieve a correct fertilisation, can be [...] the gamete intrafallopian transfer (GIFT), surrogacy in some countries... but these ones are not used nowadays due to the high success rate of IVF and ICSI and the introduction of the gametes or the embryo in the uterus.