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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The process in which an egg that has been fertilized in vitro is transferred into a recipient's uterus.
- noun A technique used in animal breeding in which an embryo from a superovulated female animal is transferred to the uterus of a recipient female animal.
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