infertility

infertile | American Dictionary

infertile
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ɪnˈfɜr·təl/
(of people or animals) not able to produce young, or (of land) of poor quality for growing crops:
an infertile couple
infertile soil

infertility

noun[ U ]us/ˌɪn·fərˈtɪlt·ɪ̬·i/

Examples of infertile

infertile
Table 5 shows the pregnancies occurring in the infertile patients attending the clinic in the years 1970-72.
Increased oxidative deoxyribonucleic acid damage in the spermatozoa of infertile male patients.
Rescue of infertile transgenic rat lines by intracytoplasmic injection of cryopreserved round spermatids.
Randomized trial of a "stage-of-change" oriented smoking cessation intervention in infertile and pregnant women.
Thus, hybrids between certain karyotypic races in the house mouse may be highly infertile or sterile.
Factors associated with male infertility: a case-control study of 218 infertile and 240 fertile men.
After all, fertile couples and many infertile couples can satisfy their need to have genetically related children in other ways.
The proportion of infertile eggs was negligible but mortality of the egg-crawler stage due to miscellaneous factors was high.
Similarly, the infertile couple might reasonably value the use of cloning because it would enable them to participate in the creation of a person.
Although not everyone in the infertile couple's situation would want to pursue cloning, some might.
Using this approach, the animal becomes infertile by eliciting immune responses to proteins involved in reproduction.
When, however, the census women are standardized for de facto duration, their proportion infertile appears as 27-9%.
From the beginning, stories started circulating about villages that had been constructed in remote and infertile areas, where even basic services like water were lacking.
Crops and trees were destroyed, while the farming land was rendered infertile.
There was no significant difference between plants from inoculated infertile soil and uninoculated fertile soil.
See all examples of infertile
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.