Sterility

(physiology) The inability to reproduce because of congenital or acquired reproductive system disorders involving lack of gamete production or production of abnormal gametes.

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noun

1. The state or condition of being unable to reproduce sexually: barrenness, infertility, sterilization. See reproduction/barrenness, rich/poor.
2. The state or condition of being free from microorganisms: sterilization. See clean/dirty.
3. A lack of excitement, liveliness, or interest: asepticism, blandness, colorlessness, drabness, dreariness, dryness, dullness, flatness, flavorlessness, insipidity, insipidness, jejuneness, lifelessness, sterileness, stodginess, vapidity, vapidness, weariness. See excite/bore/interest.

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Sterile or sterility may refer to:

• Sterilization (microbiology), a term referring to any process that eliminates or kills all forms of life from an item or field
• Sterility (physiology), an inability of a living organism to effect sexual reproduction
  • Infertility, the condition of a person being unable to bear children, especially through natural means
• Asepsis, a state of being free from biological contaminants
• Sterile deposit, a geological strata free of archaeological materials
• Sterile Records, a record label formed in London in 1979 by Nigel Ayers and Caroline K of the post-industrial music group Nocturnal Emissions

See also

• Sterilization (disambiguation)

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