NEOTERMED: Vocabulario de reproducción asistida

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Gamete intrafallopian transfer (GIFT) is a surgical assisted reproductive technology involving the collection of both oocytes and spermatozoa, which are then directly injected into the fallopian tubes via laparoscopy to allow in vivo fertilization.

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

Variants

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.