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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

They compare the conversation around male infertility today to where mental health was a decade or so ago - still taboo but slowly becoming more open.

From BBC Jun. 26, 2026

In addition, Australia’s aridity, infertility, and climatic unpredictability limited its hunter-gatherer population to only a few hundred thousand people.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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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