infertility
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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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Male infertility can often be mixed up with ideas of virility and masculinity, making it more difficult for some men to acknowledge or discuss the problem.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
Given that infertility affects 1 in 6 people, he says, “Society should treat fertility care as an equitable medical problem, the same way it treats other diseases.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
Untreated chlamydia can cause pelvic inflammatory disease and infertility.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
Changes in the human version of this gene have been linked to infertility and sperm-related disorders.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 1, 2026
In it, an infertility doctor secretly harvests extra embryos from one of his patients and uses them to create a colony of clones of the woman’s son, who died young in an accident.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
There they came suddenly upon a wide-spread sweep of turf, contrasting so brilliantly with the bygone infertilities that it seemed to them a paradise, and stretching clear on to the bluff of the pueblos.
From Overland by De Forest, J. W. (John William)
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