APA Dictionary of Psychology

any treatment for infertility in which both eggs and sperm are handled. In general, ART procedures involve surgically removing eggs from a woman’s ovaries, combining them with sperm in a laboratory, and returning them to the woman’s body or donating them to another woman, usually by means of in vitro fertilization. They do not include treatments in which only sperm are handled, as in artificial insemination, or procedures in which a woman takes drugs only to stimulate her egg production without the intention of having her eggs retrieved. See also gamete intrafallopian transfer; zygote intrafallopian transfer.