infertile
Chemotherapy often causes infertility as a side effect.
Isoflavones have long been tied to infertility in animals.
Many couples with unexplained infertility attend private clinics.
Infertility treatments can result in multiple births.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Animal reproduction
androgen
anti-oestrogen
asexuality
asexually
barrenness
calve
fertile
impregnate
oestrogen
ovulate
panmictic
panmixia
procreate
procreation
procreative
propagation
rut
semen
spawn
sterile

Examples of infertility

infertility
Again, one direct response would be to review all the options already available, or already being researched, for couples to combat genetic and infertility problems.
It extends the market in infertility practices to postmenopausal women and enlists yet another group of women, fertile women, as egg donors.
Provided appropriate consents had been obtained, oocytes were obtained from patients undergoing therapeutic in vitro fertilisation for the treatment of male factor infertility.
Wives may be treated for their husbands' infertility.
Evaluation exercises become rather complicated when we examine certain forms of infertility treatment.
Reproductive privacy can be protected while having a generally effective policy that prohibits cloning except in cases of infertility.
Thus, if we permit cloning in the infertility cases, in effect we open the door for anyone to use cloning and get away with it.
Clearly such women are unlikely to publicise their grief about infertility, miscarriages and ill-health.
Critics of treatment for inhibiting incurable disease and infertility.
It has not decreased despite the increasing proportion of women undergoing procedures as the result of male factor infertility (42).
Other studies of the relationship between infertility and cancer (12;14;27;28;62) have also produced inconsistent findings.
How this produces infertility is of considerable interest.
First, a description of the genes that cause some cases of infertility provides the basis for diagnosis at the molecular level.
Previous episodes of infertility and/or gross pathology may have occurred.
Were they healthy fertile women or were they patients seeking help with an infertility problem?
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