How to Use embryo transfer in a Sentence

embryo transfer

noun
  • But both of those embryo transfers failed, which was even harder.
    — Annie Daly, Allure, 9 July 2024
  • 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
  • But the coronavirus has put egg retrievals and embryo transfers on hold.
    — Sarah Feldberg, SFChronicle.com, 24 Apr. 2020
  • Their surrogate had had one embryo transfer but had never been pregnant for them.
    — Hazlitt, 30 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • Elliott was relieved when Guojun showed up for the embryo transfer.
    — Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Success isn’t promised; about one in three embryo transfers results in pregnancy.
    — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Their first embryo transfer, a baby boy, failed in April 2024.
    — William Lambers, Newsweek, 8 Mar. 2025
  • There are also times when an embryo transfer results in more puppies than expected.
    — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 21 Dec. 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
  • But Silver Spurs also aids in egg embryo transfers for mares that are still competing.
    — Paul Sullivan, New York Times, 4 May 2018
  • The couple was excited when Nelson got pregnant again on her sixth embryo transfer.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 16 Dec. 2023
  • But disappointment again followed when two of those embryo transfers didn’t lead to a pregnancy.
    — Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 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 two week wait My pregnancy blood test is scheduled for 12 days after the embryo transfer.
    — refinery29.com, 1 July 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • Six months after the transplant, in August, Jovanovich's first embryo transfer didn't take.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE.com, 20 July 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
  • 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
  • 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 biggest is the ongoing push in reproductive medicine towards single-embryo transfers, or putting in just one embryo at a time.
    — Elissa Strauss, Slate Magazine, 7 Feb. 2017
  • 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
  • The clinic canceled at least 35 frozen embryo transfers in the 12 days after pausing treatments.
    — Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Despite all of Anna’s growing concerns, she is comforted (or gaslit) by her husband as the embryo transfer appears to go well.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The window for egg retrieval and embryo transfer is very tight and delaying care would mean starting the entire process over again – risking time and money many couples do not have.
    — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 20 May 2025
  • 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
  • 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

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