Word: fallopian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...British press ? "We could get baby farms, mass-produced kids, 1984 six years early!" exclaimed London Daily Express Editor Derek Jameson? the Brown venture fell far short of ushering in a Brave New World. Like countless other women with fertility problems, Lesley Brown suffered from a fallopian tube disorder. In their al most fanatic insistence on secrecy, her doctors declined to say whether the tubes were missing or merely blocked. Whatever the trouble, it was apparently serious enough to prevent her from becoming pregnant...
Under normal circumstances, pregnancy occurs when an ovum, or egg cell, released by a woman's ovary during ovulation is fertilized as it passes through the fallopian tube, successfully penetrated by just a single sperm that has traveled through the uterus. After the fertilized egg undergoes a number of cell divisions, the tiny clump of cells enters the uterus, where it burrows into the wall and develops for nine months or so until birth...
Under normal circumstances, pregnancy occurs when an ovum, or egg cell, released by a woman's ovary during ovulation is fertilized in the fallopian tube by a single sperm that has traveled up from the vagina. After the fertilized egg undergoes a number of cell divisions, the tiny clump of cells enters the uterus, where it burrows into the wall and develops until birth. But the Browns, married nine years, had been unable to conceive a child because of Lesley's faulty fallopian tubes. "Three years ago," Lesley says, "we were told that there was no chance that...
...divide, first into two cells, then four, then eight, and so on. A few days later, the conceptus had reached the blastocyst stage: an aggregate of cells in the form of a hollow sphere. Ordinarily, fertilization and this initial division would take place as the egg traveled through the fallopian tube to the uterus. Thus it was at this point that the laboratory conceptus was introduced into Lesley Brown's womb...
...readily apparent in women; chlamydia can remain unnoticed in the cervix, producing no apparent symptoms. Left untreated, the infection may lead to serious complications. Men can develop inflammation of the epididymis, which carries sperm from the testis. In women, inflammation may occur in the cervix or the fallopian tubes (which can become blocked, causing sterility) and other pelvic areas. Even worse, the infection can be passed on to babies during birth, causing eye infections and pneumonia. Says Epidemiologist Julius Schachter of the University of California at San Francisco: "Five percent, at a minimum, of all newborn infants are exposed...