Flashcards: Fertility medicine

Fertility medication, better known as fertility drugs, are drugs which enhance reproductive fertility.

Cetrorelix (INN, BAN), or cetrorelix acetate (USAN, JAN), is an injectable gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonist that is marketed primarily under the brand name Cetrotide.

Ganirelix acetate (or diacetate) is an injectable competitive gonadotropin-releasing hormone antagonist (GnRH antagonist).

A designer baby is a baby that is the result of genetic screening or genetic modification.

An anovulatory cycle is a menstrual cycle during which the ovaries do not release an oocyte.

Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) is a medical condition affecting the ovaries of some women who take fertility medication to stimulate egg growth.

Recurrent miscarriage, habitual abortion, or recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL) is three or more consecutive pregnancy losses.

Artificial insemination (AI) is the deliberate introduction of sperm into a female's uterus or cervix for the purpose of achieving a pregnancy through in vivo fertilization by means other than sexual intercourse.

Female infertility refers to infertility in female humans.

Male infertility refers to a male's inability to cause pregnancy in a fertile female.

Semen collection refers to the process of obtaining semen from male humans or other animals with the use of various methods, for the purposes of artificial insemination, or medical study (usually in fertility clinics).

Ovulation induction is the stimulation of ovulation by medication.

A conception device is a medical device which is used to assist in the achievement of a pregnancy, often, but not always, by means other than sexual intercourse (natural insemination, or NI).

In vitro fertilisation (or fertilization; IVF) is a process by which an egg is fertilised by sperm outside the body: in vitro ("in glass").

Tubal factor infertility (TFI) is female infertility caused by diseases, obstructions, damage, scarring, congenital malformations or other factors which impede the descent of a fertilized or unfertilized ovum into the uterus through the Fallopian tubes and prevents a normal pregnancy and full term birth.