egg donation

noun

The process by which a woman provides one or several eggs (ova, oocytes) for purposes of assisted reproduction or biomedical research.

Meanings

nounegg donation (countable and uncountable, plural egg donations)

plural egg donations

  1. countableuncountableThe process by which a woman provides one or several eggs (ova, oocytes) for purposes of assisted reproduction or biomedical research.

Translations

Italian ovodonazione
  • ovodonazionedonation of ova
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