sterility
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- noun
- /stəˈrɪləti/
:
esterilidad
- Of those women listed, 7.2 percent were childless, indicating a high incidence of sterility.
- cause sterility
- treatment of sterility
- sterility to fertility
The risks of sterility, depression and lifelong regret are now clear.
- The risks of sterility, depression and lifelong regret are now clear.
- So if microplastics cause sterility, then Western fertility will bottom out at zero, OK?
- And then you use it and then you find out that DBC is in your well when it causes male sterility.
Examples
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I have read a good bit on GM soy causing high rates of sterility in multigeneration animal studies.
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Their struggle with sterility led them to seek medical advice and explore various treatment options.
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I have also read that sterility is becoming a problem for American livestock farmers.
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The risks of sterility, depression and lifelong regret are now clear.
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So if microplastics cause sterility, then Western fertility will bottom out at zero, OK?
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An untold number had never been born because of the sterility of many San Carlos residents.
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The result, sterility.
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Further experiments suggest that multiple substitutions within each gene are responsible for hybrid sterility.
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Because long-term exposure to its pollen caused sterility.
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The sterility of the mule, a hybrid between horse and donkey, is the classic example of hybrid sterility.
Academic text (2010)
Synonyms
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5.7
Not being able to have a baby
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8.1
The state of being unable to have children, often used about a woman
Unable to produce young, for example babies or fruit
Antonyms
How Fertile
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sterility comes from the old Latin word sterilis, which meant 'barren' and is the same root as the English word sterile. So sterility for people means being unable to have children, like a field that will not grow crops.