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infertility

[in-fer-til-i-tee] / ˌɪn fərˈtɪl ɪ ti /
NOUN
unproductiveness
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The main risk is the potential for infertility due to a lower sperm count, says Dr. Adrian Sandra Dobs, professor of medicine and oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

“My actual work promoting root-cause care for infertility received less airtime.”

From Salon Jul. 27, 2026

The known and suspected harms of these interventions include infertility, sexual dysfunction, cognitive impairment, cardiovascular disease, bone health problems and cancer.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

It can cause severe and debilitating symptoms, external such as pelvic pain, heavy periods, fatigue and infertility.

From BBC Jul. 12, 2026

In it, an infertility doctor secretly harvests extra embryos from one of his patients and uses them to create a colony of clones of the woman’s son, who died young in an accident.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

There they came suddenly upon a wide-spread sweep of turf, contrasting so brilliantly with the bygone infertilities that it seemed to them a paradise, and stretching clear on to the bluff of the pueblos.

From Overland by J. W. (John William) De Forest




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