noun

a medical treatment in which a man’s sperm (=cells from his sex organs) are put into a woman’s womb (=the part of her body where a baby can grow) so that she can become pregnant

noun

the medical processes that doctors use to help couples who cannot have a baby naturally, including processes such as ivf

verb

an old word meaning ‘to become the father of a child’

verb

to have children

verb

to become pregnant

verb

a baby is conceived when its mother becomes pregnant

noun

the moment when a woman or female animal becomes pregnant after sex

verb

if a man fathers a child, he makes a woman pregnant and becomes a father

a British spelling of fertilize

noun

the process of fertilizing an egg or a female animal or plant

verb

to provide the male cell that will join with a female cell produced by a woman, female animal, or plant and make a new person, animal, or plant

verb

to make a woman or female animal pregnant

noun

the process of producing children or animals from parents who are close members of the same family

verb

to put sperm into a woman or female animal in order to make her pregnant

noun

ivf

noun

in vitro fertilization: the medical process in which a woman’s egg is fertilized outside her body and then put back inside to grow into a baby

to make a woman pregnant

noun

an egg that can grow into a baby inside the body of a woman or a female animal

adjective

producing a lot of babies, or young plants or animals

noun

reproduction in which male and female cells join together and combine their genetic information to form a new cell, called a zygote

verb

to become the father of a child

noun

a cell from a man that fertilizes the egg inside a woman’s body and makes her pregnant

noun

a place where sperm is frozen and stored so that it can be used later to make women pregnant

noun

noun

adverb

to have a lot of children

to make a woman who is not married pregnant