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sterility: see infertility.
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The term 'sterility' has several meanings:
- The quality or state of being unable to reproduce; of being infertile. The term may be used of higher animals.
- An aseptic condition, meaning an absence of living things, as in microbiology or the environment. See also aseptic technique and sterilization (microbiology).
- Sterility in medicine and surgery indicates a micro-environment (the surgical field) made free of infectious microorganisms.
- In literature and art, the term suggests work that does not arouse the intellect or the emotions.
- Sterile Records, a record label.
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