How to Use embryo transfer in a Sentence

embryo transfer

noun
  • The rate for live births per first embryo transfer is 41.4%, per SART.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 21 Mar. 2024
  • When the time is right, the surrogate will go to the IVF clinic for the embryo transfer.
    Ben Tinker, CNN, 14 June 2019
  • The pair tied the knot in 2017, before starting the IVF process and embryo transfer with Cynthia's egg.
    Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The first embryo transfer will be with a southern white rhino as a test.
    Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Covid got in the way again eight months later when she was scheduled to have an embryo transfer.
    John Bonifield, CNN, 18 Oct. 2021
  • After the embryo transfer, Anna and her husband, Andy, bought the house next door to the Guadinos.
    Matthew Ormseth, courant.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Alex got pregnant for the first time on their third embryo transfer, but had a miscarriage during the eleventh week.
    Helen Murphy, PEOPLE.com, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Patel has had a successful IVF cycle and is now moving on to the next stage in the embryo transfer process.
    John Bonifield, CNN, 18 Oct. 2021
  • The injections Melissa had to take—for eight weeks before the embryo transfer and ten weeks after—made her tired and moody.
    Esquire, 24 June 2016
  • But the coronavirus has put egg retrievals and embryo transfers on hold.
    Sarah Feldberg, SFChronicle.com, 24 Apr. 2020
  • The two week wait My pregnancy blood test is scheduled for 12 days after the embryo transfer.
    refinery29.com, 1 July 2021
  • Now, as a woman in her late 20s, and after four failed embryo transfers through IVF, that dream seems less and less a reality.
    oregonlive, 9 Jan. 2020
  • We were all set for another embryo transfer at the end of September when things weren’t looking good.
    L'oreal Thompson Payton, SELF, 24 Apr. 2021
  • According to the Cleveland Clinic, frozen embryo transfers are more common and more likely to lead to live births.
    Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 28 Feb. 2024
  • About five months ago, after another IVF and two frozen embryo transfers, the now 42-year-old gave birth to her second son, Wyatt.
    Veronica Dagher, WSJ, 29 June 2019
  • The clinic canceled at least 35 frozen embryo transfers in the 12 days after pausing treatments.
    Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Barker expects to have Coleman's embryo transferred to her uterus this January, meaning the baby would be born in the fall.
    Megan Friedman, Good Housekeeping, 10 Nov. 2017
  • Six months after the transplant, in August, Jovanovich's first embryo transfer didn't take.
    Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE.com, 20 July 2021
  • But Silver Spurs also aids in egg embryo transfers for mares that are still competing.
    Paul Sullivan, New York Times, 4 May 2018
  • Teigen believes in sharing about the good parts of her fertility journey, too, like the embryo transfer of her first child, Luna.
    Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 21 Apr. 2021
  • The future embryo transfer, however, will be much tougher.
    Damon Casarez, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2021
  • Their surrogate had had one embryo transfer but had never been pregnant for them.
    Hazlitt, 30 Aug. 2023
  • For just an embryo transfer from a surrogate (when the carrier’s own egg won’t be the best option to lead to pregnancy), that runs about $800 according to the film.
    Essence, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Paula, who also asked to use a pseudonym, has already undergone one embryo transfer, in April of last year.
    Brian Barrett, WIRED, 27 Feb. 2024
  • In this world, the booking is such a big deal that Anna postpones her embryo transfer to go, after facing pressure from Siobhan.
    Tom Smyth, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Success isn’t promised; about one in three embryo transfers results in pregnancy.
    Brian Barrett, WIRED, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The couple was excited when Nelson got pregnant again on her sixth embryo transfer.
    Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Two weeks after the embryo transfer, a blood test can determine whether or not the transfer resulted in a pregnancy.
    Nina Bahadur, SELF, 8 Jan. 2018
  • The time from her first appointment at the fertility clinic to her successful embryo transfer was less than three months.
    Rosie Colosi, NBC News, 22 Dec. 2020
  • For about 20 years, scientists have been trying to boost the cheetah population through IVF and embryo transfers.
    Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2020

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