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sterility
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sterility
n.
infertility, inability to bear offspring; state of being free of live bacteria or other microorganisms; barrenness; fruitlessness
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Sterility
Sterile or sterility may refer to:
- Sterilization (microbiology), a term referring to any process that eliminates or kills all forms of life from an item or field
- Sterility (physiology), an inability of a living organism to effect sexual reproduction
- Infertility, the condition of a person being unable to bear children, especially through natural means
- Asepsis, a state of being free from biological contaminants
- Sterile deposit, a geological strata free of archaeological materials
- Sterile Records, a record label formed in London in 1979 by Nigel Ayers and Caroline K of the post-industrial music group Nocturnal Emissions
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sterility
Noun
1. (of non-living objects) the state of being free of pathogenic organisms
(synonym) asepsis, antisepsis, sterileness
(hypernym) sanitariness
2. the state of being unable to produce offspring; in a woman it is an inability to conceive; in a man it is an inability to impregnate
(synonym) infertility
(hypernym) physiological state, physiological condition
(hyponym) impotence, impotency
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sterility
n.
neplodnost
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sterility
Rzecz.
bezpłodność
