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| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
infertility in·fer·til·i·ty (ĭn'fər-tĭl'ĭ-tē)
n.
Absent or diminished fertility.
The persistent inability to achieve conception and produce an offspring.
| infertility (ĭn'fər-tĭl'ĭ-tē) Pronunciation Key
The inability to achieve conception after persistent attempts over a given period of time, usually one year in humans. |
infertility
the inability of a couple to conceive and reproduce. Infertility is defined as the failure to conceive after one year of regular intercourse without contraception or the inability of a woman to carry a pregnancy to a live birth. Infertility can affect either the male or the female and can result from a number of causes. About 1 in every 10 couples is infertile, or somewhere between 10 and 15 percent of the population
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