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sterility 音標拼音: [stɚ'ɪlɪti] n. 不毛,不孕,內容貧乏 不毛,不孕,內容貧乏 sterility n 1: (of non-living objects) the state of being free of pathogenic organisms [synonym: {asepsis}, {antisepsis}, {sterility}, {sterileness}] 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: {sterility}, {infertility}] [ant: {fecundity}, {fertility}] Sterility \Ste*ril"i*ty\, n. [L. sterilitas: cf. F. st['e]rilit['e].] 1. The quality or condition of being sterile. [1913 Webster] 2. (Biol.) Quality of being sterile; infecundity; also, the state of being free from germs or spores. [1913 Webster] 78 Moby Thesaurus words for "sterility": aridity, asepsis, barrenness, birth control, bloodlessness, characterlessness, cleanliness, cleanly habits, cleanness, colorlessness, contraception, daintiness, deadness, dearth, dismalness, dragginess, dreariness, dry womb, dryness, dullness, dustiness, effeteness, emptiness, etiolation, family planning, famine, fastidiousness, flatness, freshness, heaviness, hollowness, hospital cleanliness, immaculacy, immaculateness, impotence, inanity, ineffectualness, inexcitability, infecundity, infertility, insipidity, insipidness, jejunity, leadenness, lifelessness, lowness of spirit, paleness, pallor, planned parenthood, pointlessness, pokiness, ponderousness, pureness, purity, slowness, solemnity, spiritlessness, spotlessness, stainlessness, sterileness, stiffness, stodginess, stuffiness, superficiality, tastelessness, tediousness, tidiness, unfertileness, unfruitfulness, uninterestingness, unliveliness, unproductiveness, unspottedness, vapidity, vapidness, whiteness, withered loins, woodenness STERILITY. Barrenness; incapacity to produce a child. It is curable and
incurable; when of the latter kind, at the time of the marriage, and arising from impotency, it is a good cause for dissolving a marriage. 1 Fodere, Med. Leg. Sec. 254. See Impotency.
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