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1. (n.) surrogate mother
a person who acts in the place of another person's biological mother.
2. surrogate mother
a woman who helps a couple to have a child by carrying to term an embryo conceived by the couple and transferred to her uterus; gestational carrier.
3. surrogate mother
a woman who helps a couple to have a child by being inseminated with the man's sperm and either donating the embryo for transfer to the woman's uterus or carrying it to term.
Etymology: (1975–80)
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1. (noun) surrogate mother
a woman who bears a child for a couple where the wife is unable to do so
"a surrogate mother is artificially inseminated with the father's semen and carries the fetus to term"
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