Female Infertility

Question 1

What is infertility?

Answer 1

The inability to produce offspring

Question 2

What is the most common type of infertility in females?

Answer 2

The failure to ovulate (release an egg from the ovary) dur to endocrine gland failure

Question 3

What causes a failure to ovulate?

Answer 3

An endocrine gland failure

Question 4

What gland is responsible for ovulation?

Answer 4

The pituitary gland

Question 5

What happens if the pituitary gland fails to produce FSH or LD or produces too much of either hormone?

Answer 5

The eggs may not be produced or released by the ovaries

Question 6

What may result in the eggs not being produced or released by the ovaries?

Answer 6

If the pituitary gland fails to produce FSH or LD or produces too much of either hormone

Question 7

A lack in what hormone results in a failure to ovulate?

Answer 7

LH

Question 8

What does a lack of LH result in?

Answer 8

A failure to ovulate

Question 9

What are the corrective measures for failure to ovulate caused be an endocrine gland (pituitary gland) failure?
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Answer 9

The use of hormone supplements (normally by injection of the missing hormone)

In-vitro fertilisation