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injection
An assisted reproductive technology that consists of injecting a sperm into the cytoplasm of a mature egg under the microscope. In reproductive medicine, this procedure is called intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). 
Grammatical category Noun
Field Assisted Reproductive Techniques
Level of specialization Medium
Definition source glosario de Fertilidad
Variants
Hypernym
Formal
Abbreviation
Formal
Synonym
Formal
Equivalents

Spanish

inyección

Valenciano

injecció
Examples
To obtain more information on the integrity and functionality of that specific spermatozoon that the embryologist will select for injection, there are additional procedures – or add ons – that can be performed prior to ICSI without compromising the sperm's viability.
Oocyte retrieval was performed after 36 hours after the trigger injection.
Collocations
WITH ADJECTIVES
intracytoplasmic | sperm || single injection
WITH NOUNS
injection pipette || injection volume | injection volumes || injection procedure || injection site || injection technique || injection cycle 
WITH VERBS
 administer | receive | undergo | perform | repeat injection