infertility
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infertilities
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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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The main risk is the potential for infertility due to a lower sperm count, says Dr. Adrian Sandra Dobs, professor of medicine and oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
“My actual work promoting root-cause care for infertility received less airtime.”
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
The known and suspected harms of these interventions include infertility, sexual dysfunction, cognitive impairment, cardiovascular disease, bone health problems and cancer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Despite the unclear picture when it comes to the causes of male infertility, unproven solutions are being sold across social media.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 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
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 J. W. (John William) De Forest
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