(a.) Unfruitful; not producing young; barren; infertile.
Example Sentences:
(1) The index of contraception and proportion married is higher in China than in developed countries, while the Chinese infecundability index is lower.
(2) China's infecundability index is similar to semideveloped countries.
(3) A regional mapping of infecundity values revealed a concentration of in a broad belt extending from the south and southwest to the northeast across the central part of Ethiopia.
(4) Comparative data from other countries confirm that the study area has very low levels of fertility and marriage, a very high prevalence of induced abortion, and a small effect of lactational infecundability.
(5) Residence in Shewa increased the risk of infecundity by 2.16 in comparison to residence in an eastern region.
(6) The effects of 2 other proximate determinants, lactational infecundability and spousal separation, were negligible (even though spousal separation was especially considered, on the belief that it is strongly affected by employment patterns).
(7) Characterization of a group of dominant second chromosome suppressor of position-effect variegation (PEV) (Su(var)) mutants has revealed a variety of interesting properties, including: maternal-effect suppression of PEV, homozygous lethality or semilethality and male-specific hemizygous lethality, female infecundity, acute sensitivity to the amount of heterochromatin in the cell and sensitivity to sodium butyrate.
(8) The decline in fertility may be due to several factors: deferred marriage; increase in divorces and husband-wife separations; high fetal wastage; voluntary fertility control through contraception, abstention, or induced abortion; and infecundability.
(9) The proportion infecund among ever-married women declined with age, from 11.5% among women over age 55, 7.4% among those 45-54, to 5% among women aged 30-44 years.
(10) Abortion (.832) and infecundability (.852) had minimal effects on fertility reduction.
(11) A 1980-81 survey of the rural population of Ethiopia found high levels of infecundity and subfertility, although there was considerable variation by region, ethnicity and age of women.
(12) On the basis of the incidence of infecundity, four regional groups were formed--western (Welega, Ilubabor, Kefa, and Sidamo), Shewa, Welo, and eastern (Harerge, Bale, and Arsi), representing very high, high, moderate, and low incidences, respectively.
(13) The 6 regions that comprise this belt had infecundity rates in excess of 8%.
(14) The 1978 World Fertility Survey (WFS) and the 1986 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data are used to examine the relative contributions of three proximate determinants (nuptiality or marriage, contraception and post-partum infecundability) to fertility change in Senegal.
(15) The changes in fertility levels from Phase 1 to Phase 4 generally indicate that the transition from natural to controlled fertility is characterized by declines in the proportions of women married and the duration of postpartum infecundability, and a substantial increase in the prevalence and effectiveness of contraceptive practices.
(16) To test the relative significance of these factors, logistic regression analyses were performed using the incidence of infecundity among women 40-59 years of age as the dependent variable.
(17) However, the index of contraceptive use exerts the least impact on fertility reduction while that of post-partum infecundability makes the strongest impact on fertility.
(18) Total average interval between births is 36 months; about 18 months are solely due to breastfeeding, the remaining months to combined effects of gestation, waiting time to conception, intrauterine mortality and post-partum infecundability.
(19) Direct evidence on age patterns of infecundity and sterility cannot be obtained from contemporary populations because such large fractions of couples use contraception or have been sterilized.
(20) The proportion of infecund women is approximately the same as in the 1970s.
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.