impregnation
im preg nay shuhn
- n material with which something is impregnated
the impregnation, whatever it was, had turned the rock blue - n the process of totally saturating something with a substance
the impregnation of wood with preservative - n creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant
- The Australian team retrieved four eggs from the second woman's ovaries for the test-tube fertilization; with her permission, they collected one more to be used in an impregnation .
- Salma Hayek announces her engagement to (and impregnation by) wealthy French fashion magnate Franois-Henri Pinault.
- The plan, outlined during a cloning conference sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences, calls for the impregnation of 200 women each half of a couple desperate to benefit .