Meaning of INFERTILITY
| Pronunciation: | | `infurt'ilutee
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 WordNet Dictionary |
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[n] 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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INFERTILITY is a 11 letter word that starts with I. |
| | Synonyms: | | sterility |
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| | Antonyms: | | fecundity, fertility | | |
| | See Also: | | barrenness, cacogenesis, dysgenesis, impotence, impotency, physiological condition, physiological state | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In`fer*til"i*ty\, n. [L. infertilitas: cf. F.
infertilit['e].]
The state or quality of being infertile; unproductiveness;
barrenness.
The infertility or noxiousness of the soil. --Sir M.
Hale.
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| Medical Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | The inability to produce children. |
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| Biology Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | The inability of a couple to achieve a pregnancy or to carry a pregnancy to term after one year of unprotected intercourse. |
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| | Related Terms: | | aridity, aridness, barrenness, birth control, contraception, dearth, dearth of ideas, dry womb, dryness, dullness, family planning, famine, impotence, ineffectualness, infecundity, planned parenthood, prosaicism, prosaicness, prosaism, prosiness, staidness, sterileness, sterility, stolidity, stuffiness, uncreativeness, unfancifulness, unfertileness, unfruitfulness, unimaginativeness, unoriginality, unpoeticalness, unproductiveness, withered loins |
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