surrogate mother

n.1. A woman who agrees, usually for pay, to give birth to a child resulting from artificial insemination or the implantation of an already fertilized egg and who surrenders any parental rights to a third party.2. One that acts as, serves as, or is a mother substitute.

surrogate motherhood n.

surrogate mother

n (Medicine) a woman who bears a child on behalf of a couple unable to have a child, either by artificial insemination from the man or implantation of an embryo from the woman surrogacy n

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n. 1. a person who acts in the place of another person's biological mother. 2. a. a woman who helps a couple to have a child by carrying to term an embryo conceived by the couple and transferred to her uterus; gestational carrier. b. a woman who helps a couple to have a child by being inseminated with the man's sperm and either donating the embryo for transfer to the woman's uterus or carrying it to term. [1975–80]

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surrogate mother - a woman who bears a child for a couple where the wife is unable to do so; "a surrogate mother is artificially inseminated with the father's semen and carries the fetus to term"female parent, mother - a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother); "the mother of three children"

Translations

代孕母亲养母

surrogate

(ˈsarəgeit) noun a person or thing that is considered or used as a substitute for another person or thing. 代用品surrogate ˈmother noun a woman who has a baby for another woman who is unable to have babies. 养母

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surrogate mother

surrogate mother,

a woman who agrees, usually by contract and for a fee, to bear a child for a couple who are childless because the wife is infertile or physically incapable of carrying a developing fetus. Often the surrogate mother is the biological mother of the child, conceiving it by means of artificial inseminationartificial insemination,
technique involving the artificial injection of sperm-containing semen from a male into a female to cause pregnancy. Artificial insemination is often used in animals to multiply the possible offspring of a prized animal and for the breeding of endangered
..... Click the link for more information. with sperm from the husband. In gestational surrogacy, the wife is fertile but incapable of carrying a growing fetus; the child is conceived by in vitro fertilizationin vitro fertilization
(IVF), technique for conception of a human embryo outside the mother's body. Several ova, or eggs, are removed from the mother's body and placed in special laboratory culture dishes (Petri dishes); sperm from the father are then added, or in many cases a
..... Click the link for more information. using the wife's eggs and her husband's sperm, and the resulting embryo is implanted in the surrogate mother's uterus.

Surrogate motherhood has raised complex ethical and legal issues, and lawsuits over custody after the child's birth have resulted from both types of surrogacy. In the highly publicized Baby M case (1986–88), Mary Beth Whitehead, the surrogate (and biological) mother, sued William and Elizabeth Stern, the baby's father and his wife, for custody of the child. Although the surrogate mother was not awarded custody in the Baby M case, she was granted visitation rights. Several European countries and a number of states have passed laws banning paid surrogacy.

surrogate mother

sur·ro·gate moth·er

a woman who has been contracted with to carry a pregnancy for another woman or couple.

surrogate mother

n.1. A woman who agrees, often for pay, to give birth to a child resulting from artificial insemination or the implantation of an already fertilized egg and who surrenders any parental rights to a third party.2. One that acts as, serves as, or is a mother substitute.

surrogate motherhood n.

surrogate mother

Contract mother, surrogacy Social medicine A ♀ who agrees to be (artificially) inseminated with the sperm of the partner of an infertile ♀; the SM carries the baby to term, at which point it is adopted by the biological father and his partner. See Gestational surrogacy.

sur·ro·gate moth·er

(sŭr'ŏ-găt mŏdh'ĕr) A woman who is under contract to carry a pregnancy for another woman or couple.

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noun a woman who bears a child for a couple where the wife is unable to do so

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