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Health Occupations > Medicine > Reproductive Medicine

Preferred term

Reproductive Medicine  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Medicine, Reproductive

Note

  • use for the specialty only; use REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH for the state of the reproductive system

Scope note

  • 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)

History note

  • 95

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D018456

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