IVF is a method of helping a woman to have a baby in which an egg is removed from one of her ovaries, fertilized outside her body,and then replaced in her womb. IVF is an abbreviation for 'in vitro fertilization'.
IVF in British English
abbreviation for
in vitro fertilization
in vitro fertilization in British English
noun
a technique enabling some women who are unable to conceive to bear children. Egg cells removed from a woman's ovary are fertilized by sperm in vitro; some of the resulting fertilized egg cells are incubated until the blastocyst stage, which are then implanted into her uterus
Abbreviation: IVF
IVF in American English
in vitro fertilization
Examples of 'IVF' in a sentence
IVF
"Fine, thanks, and I'm calling with the results from your last IVF.