Concept information
Preferred term
Reproductive Medicine
Type
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mesh:Descriptor
Definition
- A medical-surgical specialty concerned with the morphology, physiology, biochemistry, and pathology of reproduction in man and other animals, and on the biological, medical, and veterinary problems of fertility and lactation. It includes ovulation induction, diagnosis of infertility and recurrent pregnancy loss, and assisted reproductive technologies such as embryo transfer, in vitro fertilization, and intrafallopian transfer of zygotes. (From Infertility and Reproductive Medicine Clinics of North America, Foreword 1990; Journal of Reproduction and Fertility, Notice to Contributors, Jan 1979)
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
Entry terms
- Medicine, Reproductive
Allowable Qualifier(s)
- classification (Qualifier)
- economics (Qualifier)
- education (Qualifier)
- ethics (Qualifier)
- history (Qualifier)
- instrumentation (Qualifier)
- legislation & jurisprudence (Qualifier)
- methods (Qualifier)
- organization & administration (Qualifier)
- standards (Qualifier)
- statistics & numerical data (Qualifier)
- trends (Qualifier)
In other languages
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French
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Médecine de la procréation
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Médecine génésique
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Médecine reproductive
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-K4WSGKL3-G
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