What's the difference between heathland and infertile?

Heathland


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Enjoy riding through the natural beauty of pine forests and open heathland, before taking the Sand Worm (a tractor-trailer ride) across vast sand dunes to the colliding waves of the North and Baltic seas.
  • (2) Ten of the 13 species that depend on specific habitats - heathland, coppices, woodland glades, bracken, hedgerows and so on - have fared better on sites where farmers had agreed to tend the landscape with wildlife in mind.
  • (3) The path runs through a wild and protected area of dunes, woodland and heathlands with views of the islands in the Gulf of Morbihan.
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Coastal heathland around the shack community of Temma on the west coast of Tasmania, which has been reduced to ash after a bushfire.
  • (5) Specific needs, such as pig-raising or bee-keeping, supported the formation of particular landscapes, e.g., sparsely wooded forests and extensive heathlands.
  • (6) * According to Wikipedia a chaparral is "a shrubland or heathland plant community found primarily in the US state of California and in the northern portion of the Baja California peninsula, Mexico".
  • (7) The destruction or conversion of grasslands, heathlands and scrub to grow more crops – often using pesticides – has decimated many bird populations.
  • (8) Stonechats, warblers and linnets chatter from the heathland.
  • (9) It involves activities such as restoring heathland, burning brash – cuttings left over from wood management – digging ditches, path widening, coppicing, scrub clearance, fence removal and pond maintenance.
  • (10) Glover says the commission is not a guardian of our woods, having "for most of its existence ... gone about ripping up ancient forests and heathlands and covering them in industrial coniferous monoculture".
  • (11) Our rarer blues, the large, chalk hill, Adonis and silver-studded, use very specific habitats; heathland for the latter, southern downland for the first three.
  • (12) Goonhilly, a sparse heathland at Britain's most southerly point, could have been designed for satellite broadcasts by a benevolent god familiar with the nature of the radio wave.
  • (13) The rare heathland broad-headed bug was discovered by the trust's biological survey team on Dunkery Beacon in Exmoor, along with the scarce cow-wheat shieldbug.
  • (14) Chilworth to Guildford, Surrey This eight-mile walk crosses heathland dotted with pretty villages before dropping down to follow the Wey Navigation , where there are many swimming places.
  • (15) Photograph: Exmoor Tourism Partnership (ETP) The Quantock Hills are a sumptuous mix of woods and heathland, and the birthplace of Romantic poetry.
  • (16) In a sign of the opposition companies are likely to face from local communities and environmental groups, however, the Countryside Council for Wales warned that the land around the possible mid-Wales source of water for transfer from the Severn to the Thames was home to many protected species including important bog and heathland, and hen harriers, peregrine falcons and merlins.

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.

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