(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.
Unfertile
Definition:
(a.) Not fertile; infertile; barren.
Example Sentences:
(1) The number of ovarian balls rises to about 6300 per worm, with the maximum being attained more rapidly in unfertilized than in fertilized females.
(2) By the incubation, a protein (molecular weight 180,000 in H. pulcherrimus and 178,000 in A. crassispina) most abundant in unfertilized eggs decreased, while proteins (molecular weight 61,000, 72,000, 94,000, 114,000 in H. pulcherrimus and 56,000, 70,000, 92,000, 112,000 in A. crassispina) dominant in developed embryos increased.
(3) Chromosome separation at anaphase is not blocked when these antibodies are microinjected into unfertilized oocytes naturally arrested at second meiotic metaphase, into eggs at first mitotic metaphase, or into immature oocytes at first meiotic metaphase.
(4) Dramatic decrease from 99% to 17% in the absolute value of transmembrane potential for both fertilized and unfertilized eggs was observed after ultrasonic treatment.
(5) (3H) leucine was injected into unfertilized eggs, fertilized eggs, and Stage 2-12 embryos of X. laevis.
(6) These channels are already found in unfertilized egg cells in many animals.
(7) Thus, under these conditions, exposure of unfertilized mouse ova to VS1 and cooling to 0 degree C did not interfere with in vitro fertilization and development of embryos.
(8) Actinomycin D is excluded from unfertilized eggs and developing embryos of the sea urchin Arbacia punctulata until the blastula hatches.
(9) The proportion of thiol to total thiol plus disulphide in acid extracts from sea-urchin eggs varies from less than 20% in mature unfertilized eggs to 59% just before cleavage.
(10) The transport of methionine into unfertilized and fertilized mouse eggs appears to involve active transport mechanisms with similar Vmax, Km, substrate specificity and independence from Na+.
(11) The addition of antibiotics removes inhibition of the hexokinase, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and glucose-6-phosphatase activities by the hormone in the unfertilized eggs as well.
(12) Currents, induced by changing the voltage in steps from -80 to -30 mV, or to 0 mV, had maximum amplitudes which ranged from 400 to 1200 pA in the unfertilized egg and 100 to 1300 pA in the zygote.
(13) Numbers of unfertilized oocytes and embryos recovered from the left uterine horn at 48 hours after mating.
(14) The unfertilized eggs of two genotypically different females had nearly identical levels of DNA polymerase.
(15) Parasites that have lost their coats and remain unfertilized are surrounded with granulocytes and destroyed by encapsulation.
(16) During 1988, the spatial variability of the natural gamma-emitting radionuclides (238U, 232Th, and 40K) and the artificial radionuclide 137Cs were studied in three near-level unfertilized fields in Saskatchewan, Canada.
(17) Total tract apparent digestibility of N was less for full-head than for late-boot bromegrass (48 vs 64%; P less than .01) and was greater for N-fertilized than for unfertilized bromegrass (60 vs 52%, P less than .01).
(18) Remarkably mouse sperm do not appear to have the centrosomal antigen and instead centrosomes are found in the unfertilized oocyte.
(19) In the unfertilized oocyte, polarity was observed both in the plasma membrane stain and in the pattern formed by the subcellular structures.
(20) At 15 degrees C, the transit times for the three lysates were: unfertilized egg, 40 min; 30-min zygotes and hatched blastula lysates, 20 min.