infertility
Americannoun
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the condition or fact of being infertile or unproductive.
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Pathology. the condition of being unable to conceive or bear children, or any of various subtypes of this condition depending on specific cause.
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According to the World Health Organisation, the condition affects one in 10 women in the UK, and as well as extremely heavy periods, it can cause debilitating pain and sometimes infertility.
From BBC • May 8, 2026
Title X is the only federal program to reliably offer basic infertility care to women and men.
From Salon • Apr. 28, 2026
I have been disturbed to see how seriously many of my patients have taken the panic around microplastics and fertility to heart, as if using wooden cutting boards will negate age-related infertility, for example.
From Slate • Apr. 16, 2026
It’s a tender, bizarro reckoning with marriage, infertility and friendship, among life’s other illusions.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026
That seems like a long time of working at something, since the medical definition of infertility is twelve months of well-timed physical union without any results.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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