Back to search
egg freezing
A process in which one or more unfertilised eggs are frozen for future use. After thawing, they may be fertilised in the laboratory and the resulting embryos transferred to the patient’s uterus. It is used as a form of fertility preservation. It is also known as oocyte freezing.
Grammatical category Noun
Field Assisted Reproductive Techniques
Level of specialization High
Definition source Instituto Nacional del Cáncer
Gender relationship Yes, woman
Specific to one sex Yes
Variants
Hypernym
Standard
Synonym
oocyte freezing
Formal
Equivalents

Spanish

congelación de óvulos

Valenciano

congelació d'òvuls
Examples
No doubt, the demonstrated successes of egg freezing, including a series of randomised controlled trials, which have suggested comparable fertilisation and pregnancy rates for in vitro fertilisation (IVF) cycles using fresh and frozen-thawed eggs [7–9], have been a key factor in the growth of this technology. 
Many of the patients originally undertook multiple cycles of egg freezing, and some batched eggs frozen across multiple cycles to be thawed in one go. 
Collocations
WITH VERBS
undergo | consider || analyse | investigate | report | demonstrate | confirm egg freezing
WITH NOUNS
 clinical egg freezing | medical egg freezing || social egg freezing | non-social egg freezing | elective egg freezing
egg freezing cycle | egg freezing data | egg freezing patient | egg freezing practice | egg freezing technology 
WITH ADJECTIVES
 social | elective | medical | clinical | non-social egg freezing