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surrogacy
A practice whereby a woman agrees to gestate and deliver a child for another person or couple. It may involve either traditional or gestational surrogacy. It is also known as surrogate motherhood.

Grammatical category Noun
Field Assisted Reproductive Techniques
Level of specialization High
Definition source glosario de Fertilidad
Variants
Hypernym
Formal
Formal
Hyponym
Formal
Synonym
gestational surrogacy
Formal
Formal
Equivalents

Spanish

gestación por sustitución
gestación subrogada
Examples
Prior to participating in embryo donation or a surrogacy IVF cycle, the third party must be rescreened and a negative test for Chlamydia trachomatis or Neisseria Gonorrhoeae must be confirmed.
Clinics should receive clearance letters from both lawyers involved confirming that a surrogacy agreement has been completed before treatment commences.
Collocations
WITH VERBS
proceed with | counsel with respect to | confirm | review | commence | include surrogacy

WITH ADJECTIVES
gestational | traditional surrogacy

WITH NOUNS
surrogacy treatment | surrogacy cycle | surrogacy contract | surrogacy agreement || surrogacy arrangements