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Definition of "infertility" []

  • Absent or diminished fertility. (noun)
  • The persistent inability to conceive a child. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "infertility" in a sentence
  • "Finally, the HPV vaccine has been implicated in infertility because it contains polysorbate 80 as a stabilizer."
  • "The proposal that these embryos could be put at the disposal of infertile couples as a treatment for infertility is not ethically acceptable for the same reasons which make artificial heterologous procreation illicit as well as any form of surrogate motherhood; this practice would also lead to other problems of a medical, psychological and legal nature."
  • "I only know the pain infertility has caused in my heart ..."