Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Absent or diminished fertility.
- noun The persistent inability to conceive a child.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The condition of being infertile; unproductiveness; barrenness: as, the infertility of land.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being infertile; unproductiveness; barrenness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The condition of being
infertile ; of having poorfertility . - noun The
inability toconceive children .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the state of being unable to produce offspring; in a woman it is an inability to conceive; in a man it is an inability to impregnate
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Examples
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Finally, the HPV vaccine has been implicated in infertility because it contains polysorbate 80 as a stabilizer.
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The proposal that these embryos could be put at the disposal of infertile couples as a treatment for infertility is not ethically acceptable for the same reasons which make artificial heterologous procreation illicit as well as any form of surrogate motherhood; this practice would also lead to other problems of a medical, psychological and legal nature.
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The proposal that these embryos could be put at the disposal of infertile couples as a treatment for infertility is not ethically acceptable for the same reasons which make artificial heterologous procreation illicit as well as any form of surrogate motherhood; this practice would also lead to other problems of a medical, psychological and legal nature.
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I only know the pain infertility has caused in my heart ...
Trinity 2007
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Low cost or not, the word infertility will not be taken out of the dictionary any time soon.
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The human race’s sudden, unexplained infertility is the device used to plunge the world into chaos, but it’s just a more aggressive extension of modern issues.
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My infertility is the trope throughout, and it's a subject rich with stories.
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My infertility is the trope throughout, and it's a subject rich with stories.
Phoebe Potts: 'Good Eggs': A Comic About Infertility Phoebe Potts 2010
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For idiopathic infertility, that is, infertility of an unknown cause, your ultimate chance of success is often related to the duration of the infertility.
A Baby at Last! Mark L. Fuerst 2010
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Bennett, a doctor, knew that their local NHS trust would only provide donor sperm to couples with proven infertility – in other words, they had to have a go themselves before they could get help.
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The Musical that's Hard to Conceive
November 2, 2007