(n.) Elevated lands or plains on which grow small trees, but not timber; as, pine barrens; oak barrens. They are not necessarily sterile, and are often fertile.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blueberry barrens stretch over several acres in Wesley, Maine.
(2) During a year of residence in the essentially allergen-free, barren environment of Antarctica, allergic subjects were entirely sypmtom-free.
(3) Mean calving to conception intervals were 91.4 and 85.3 days (P < 0.01) and the incidence of barren cows was 10.2 and 5.3% (NS).
(4) Nobody is sure what dangerous chemical imbalance this would create but the Fiver is convinced we'd all be dust come October or November, the earth scorched, with only three survivors roaming o'er the barren landscape: Govan's answer to King Lear, ranting into a hole in the ground; a mute, wild-eyed pundit, staring without blinking into a hole in the ground; and a tall, irritable figure standing in front of the pair of them, screaming in the style popularised by Klaus Kinski, demanding they take a look at his goddamn trouser arrangement, which he has balanced here on the platform of his hand for easy perusal, or to hell with them, for they are no better than pigs, worthless, spineless pigs.
(5) BBC footage showed Tebbutt wearing a green headscarf running towards a plane in a flat, barren landscape.
(6) Forced removals and dumping of millions of people into small, disconnected, barren, poor reserve areas, bereft of adequate medical, psychiatric and public health services (the 'final solution' of the 'native problem') causes widespread malnutrition, infectious and other diseases, and high mortality and mental-illness rates.
(7) There is no difference in the cyclicity of indices studied between pregnant and barren mares.
(8) Many cities have a history of hosting refugees; indeed, the typical image of a refugee dwelling – straight rows of nondescript tents set up on barren, faraway lands – is misleading.
(9) There were three groups: pregnant (P) ewes (n = 6) which each reared twin lambs, hormone-treated (H) ewes (n = 7) which were not pregnant and were given exogenous hormones (dexamethasone, oestradiol-17 beta, progesterone) for 37 days to induce udder development and milk production, and untreated barren (B) ewes (n = 6).
(10) Last year, Icelandic authorities rejected a Chinese billionaire's bid to turn land in the country's barren north into a holiday resort .
(11) It’s in these barren parts that the Edwards air force base is located, where Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time, and where the test pilots celebrated in Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff proved their mettle before going on to become America’s first astronauts.
(12) I grit my teeth as the trees hunker down smaller and smaller, then finally give up entirely, leaving us alone in a barren upland area where there is one large grey house partially obscured by torn curtains of freezing rain.
(13) 9 of 30 camels which were barren for a long period were found to be positive for C. fetus.
(14) Between 1982 and 1985, 1015 mares were evaluated using the following parameters: age, mare status (maiden, barren, lactating), Caslick index, Caslick operation, ovarian cycle, ovarian and follicular size, treatments (hCG and intrauterine infusions), number of ovulations after mating (184 mares), number of conceptuses present, dimensions of embryonic vesicles, and pregnancy status 45 days after mating.
(15) In 2007 the conservative senator, Bill Heffernan, accused the prime minister, then in opposition, of being unfit for leadership because she was "deliberately barren".
(16) All dogs from which necropsy samples were obtained harbored low numbers of adult female worms, some of which were barren.
(17) And no wonder, so seductively dystopian is its premise: that a species can be eradicated by altering the genetic code of males in captivity so that they will only be able to produce sterile offspring, then releasing them into the wild to mate with unsuspecting females, rendering the next generation barren.
(18) To analyse the junction point between the expression site and the inserted gene, these two barren regions were cloned and sequenced.
(19) He looks down dismissively at the guilty patch of barren earth.
(20) The presence of the nuclear plant is a beacon of employment in an otherwise barren jobs landscape.
Infertile
Definition:
(a.) Not fertile; not productive; barren; sterile; as, an infertile soil.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since the advance and return of sperm inside the tubes could facilitate the interaction of sperm with secretions participating in its maturation, the persistent infertility after vasectomy could be related to the contractile alteration that follows the excessive tubal distention.
(2) A segment of vas deferens was transplanted to the contralateral deferens with the intention of improving treatment for certain cases of infertility caused by obstruction.
(3) The success in these two infertile patients who had already undergone lengthy psychotherapy is promising.
(4) Groups of inbred female mice of strains CBA or C3H were infected genitally with a pathogenic human strain of Chlamydia trachomatis (N.I.1, serovar F) known to produce salpingitis and infertility in mice.
(5) Most survivors reported a range of problems that they attributed to having had cancer: 35%, proven or perceived infertility; 24%, sexual problems; 31%, health and life insurance problems; 26%, a negative socioeconomic effect; and 51%, conditioned nausea, associated with visual or olfactory reminders of chemotherapy.
(6) Following the hypothesis that infertile patients may present emotional conflicts with regard to the wish of having a child, psychodynamic interviews were carried out with 116 infertile couples concomitantly with their first consultation at the Sterility Department.
(7) C trachomatis is a well known cause of cervicitis and salpingitis and is consequently a major factor in infertility.
(8) Despite use of surgical adjuvants, pelvic adhesions frequently develop following infertility surgery.
(9) By contrast, all the semen samples that fertilized oocytes showed a 60% or higher reaction in the hypoosmotic swelling test, whereas the majority of the "infertile" semen samples showed less than 60% swelling.
(10) A total of 140 women who had anovulatory endometrium among 1036 patients who had a clinical diagnosis of primary infertility, over a 5 yr period were studied.
(11) The varicocele, present in many of the male partners of infertile couples continues to generate controversy, particularly as related to its diagnosis and pathophysiology.
(12) Sequelae include infertility, pelvic pain, ectopic pregnancy, and perinatal infection.
(13) The authors have reassessed the anatomic distribution of ectopic endometrium by the laparoscopic study of the location of implants, adhesions, and uterine position in 182 consecutive patients with infertility and endometriosis.
(14) Hysterography and hysteroscopy have been compared in the diagnosis of endouterine benign pathology, in a group of 50 patients, complaining meno-metrorrhagia, sterility, infertility or amenorrhea.
(15) Selection for treatment resulted in imbalance between the groups: the treated couples had a longer mean duration of infertility (48 vs. 36 months), and were more likely to have had a laparoscopy as part of the investigation (72% vs. 48%).
(16) The results obtained by our laboratory using the optimized assay described herein demonstrate that this test can play an important role in the evaluation of an infertile man.
(17) Dopamine agonist Bromocriptin tablet has been used in 102 cases, partly for the inhibition of puerperal lactation, partly for the treatment of infertility accompanied by hyperprolactinaemia.
(18) The study included patients with long-standing (2-11 years) unexplained infertility with a negative or reduced GH response to clonidine (up to 150 micrograms of clonidine orally).
(19) The incidence of Chlamydia infection and factors associated with it in 193 women consulting for infertility was analyzed in comparison with 210 matched controls.
(20) Adverse effects are mostly those related to hormone withdrawal, namely, impotence, infertility, and lassitude.