NEOTERMED: Vocabulario de reproducción asistida

Human organism in its earliest stage of development, from implantation to the ninth week of pregnancy.

Grammatical category	Noun
Field	Anatomy, physiology and embryology
Level of specialization	Medium
Definition source	glosario de Fertilidad
Gender relationship	No

Equivalents

Spanish

embrión

Valenciano

embrió

Examples

This technique generates lots of controversy, due to ethical and embryo viability implications, because it is not known if it significantly affects the embryo.

To ensure that the baby is healthy and to avoid any type of pregnancy or birth defects or problems, a genetic test can be performed to the embryo, prior to the transfer and implantation in the mother.

Collocations

WITH NOUNS

embryo transfer | implantation || development || donor | donation || biopsy || viability || culture

WITH ADJECTIVES

aneuploid | euploid || human || cryopreserved | frozen || viable || cleavage-stage || mosaic embryos

WITH VERBS

analyse || select | choose || freeze embryos || embryo develops