fertility drug

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noun Pharmacology.

a substance that enhances the ability to produce young.

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Also called fertility pill .

Origin of fertility drug

First recorded in 1965–70

Words nearby fertility drug

fertile, Fertile Crescent, fertile period, fertility, fertility cult, fertility drug, fertility factor, fertility symbol, fertilization, fertilize, fertilizer

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How to use fertility drug in a sentence

He had to retrieve immature eggs from Claudy, for the sake of both speed and to avoid aggravating her hormone-sensitive breast cancer with fertility drugs.
Solving mysteries of reproduction helped make parenthood possible for millions|Robin Marantz Henig|June 9, 2021|Science News
The day before I was supposed to start, I attended a mandatory class on how to self-inject the multiple fertility drugs needed to prime ovaries for egg extraction.
What If I Run Out of Time to Decide About Kids?|Amelia Boone|May 26, 2021|Outside Online
Although Roberts was taking a fertility drug to stimulate ovulation, Walker said he’s “not convinced” the medication — which can increase the chances of having multiples — is what caused the superfetation.
Woman gets pregnant while already pregnant, gives birth to twins conceived 3 weeks apart|Sydney Page|April 8, 2021|Washington Post
A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.
Shot Down During the NYPD Slowdown|Michael Daly|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Did he go to the authorities to file a report against the Guerreros Unidos drug cartel?
Mexico’s Priests Are Marked for Murder|Jason McGahan|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
He also was working to recruit Castro as a driver for a drug load.
An Informant, a Missing American, and Juarez’s House of Death: Inside the 12-Year Cold Case of David Castro|Bill Conroy|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
And so the same creeping rot of the rule of law that the administration has inflicted on immigration now bedevils our drug laws.
Obama’s Pot Policy Is Refer Madness|James Poulos|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
“They know there are drug spots,” said Wanda Williams, who was out for a walk with her son.
Ground Zero of the NYPD Slowdown|Batya Ungar-Sargon|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST
But green Chartreuse unhappily is not innocent; it is more than a spirit, it is a powerful drug.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
Five years later he was drawing a large salary, and at the age of thirty he had opened a retail drug store of his own.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
His banks were teeming with happy dusky figures and the smiling irrigated land was bright with fertility.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow
There is a great variety of soils found here, and most of them have a fair degree of plant fertility.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia|Dorothy M. Torpey
But in Virginia it was grown without interruption or alternation, and the plantations rapidly deteriorated in fertility.
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British Dictionary definitions for fertility drug

fertility drug

noun

any of a group of preparations used to stimulate ovulation in women hitherto infertile

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