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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)
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- Medicine, Reproductive
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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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use for the specialty only; use REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH for the state of the reproductive system
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- National Library of Medicine. Reproductive Medicine. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D018456. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D018456
- Reproductive Medicine. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproductive_medicine
- Reproductive Medicine. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q351870