[
US
/stɝˈɪɫɪti/
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[ UK /stɛɹˈɪlɪti/ ]
[ UK /stɛɹˈɪlɪti/ ]
NOUN
- (of non-living objects) the state of being free of pathogenic organisms
- 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
How To Use sterility In A Sentence
- Or did we perhaps witness a cheeky acknowledgement by the show's writing team that Tommy needs some character traits -- other than sterility and petulance, that is -- pronto? Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
- The disease can cause sterility in men and women.
- ÂHuman males, unlike their snail and rotifer counterparts, actually seek out sterility in a potential partner... and for good reason: could you imagine if each of your own sexual conquests had resulted in offspring? Carin Bondar: No Eggs? No Problem!
- A temperature of 121? ? C is regarded as the minimum necessary to achieve sterility.
- The mice receiving a tad over 1 microwatt/cm2 regressed to sterility after only three generations. 73 Microwave Technology: An End to the Human Race
- Second, there are no known cases in which all individuals of a population are self-sterile due to inbreeding depression, although complete self-sterility has been found in individual plants.
- Adaptation can occur quickly permitting considerable variation within the limits of the species but loss of genetic information is a known continuing process e.g.telemeres; this eventually leads to intersterility within the species but it is not speciation. Why the new Darwin Debate is Good News | PopPolitics.com
- A temperature of 121? ? C is regarded as the minimum necessary to achieve sterility.
- Apart from the pain and trauma it causes, circumcision may lead to various forms of infection, incontinence, sterility and difficulties in child birth, such as obstetric fistulas. ANC Daily News Briefing
- Thus it is that the growth of technical means tending to absolutism forbids the appearance of values and condemns to sterility our search for the ethical and the spiritual.