Reproductive medicine

Pronunciation

Definition 1

A branch of medicine that specializes in fertility preservation, diagnosing and treating infertility, and other reproductive problems. Reproductive medicine also deals with issues related to puberty, menopause, contraception (birth control), and certain sexual problems. (NCI Dictionary)

Definition 2

A branch of medicine that deals with prevention, diagnosis and management of reproductive problems. It addresses issues of sexual education, puberty, family planning, birth control, infertility, reproductive system disease and sexual dysfunction. (NCI Thesaurus)

Definition 3

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) (NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

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