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mother (muth´әr) the female parent. something from which another thing is derived, as a mother cell. genetic mother
the woman whose contribution to the child was the oocyte, and hence genes. Sometimes a woman who cannot carry a fetus can nevertheless be a genetic mother via in vitro fertilization with implantation in a gestational surrogate mother. gestational mother
the woman whose uterus provides the nurturing and development of a fetus; she may be the natural mother or a gestational surrogate mother. gestational surrogate mother
a surrogate mother who is carrying a fetus produced by in vitro fertilization and is not the genetic mother of the fetus. surrogate mother
a woman who carries a pregnancy for another woman or couple, usually because the latter suffers from infertility.
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