SURROGATE MOTHER Definition & Meaning

surrogate mother

noun

a person who acts in the place of another person's biological mother.
an animal that is given another's offspring to raise.
Medicine/Medical. 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, or 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.

surrogate mother

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noun

a woman who bears a child on behalf of a couple unable to have a child, either by artificial insemination from the man or implantation of an embryo from the woman

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Derived Forms

surrogacy, noun

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of surrogate mother¹

First recorded in 1975–80

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He says it was inspired by his trips to and from a palliative care home to visit his friend and mentor, Annie Orwin, who he's described as being like "a surrogate mother" to him.

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The following year, 32 surrogate mothers charged with human trafficking in Cambodia were released on the condition they raised the children themselves.

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The singer said People Watching is about Annie Orwin, who he described as "a surrogate mother in a lot of ways".

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“Oh, it’s so nice you have a surrogate mother in L.A.,” my own mother would often say of Loraine when she visited from the East Coast.

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A couple has said their life has been made "hell" as they try to return to the UK with their daughter, who born through a surrogate mother in Belarus.

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