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|601_1_1_en_I Fertility.ogg|'''fertility'''  
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|621_1_1_en_I Fecundity.ogg|'''fecundity'''
|601_1_2_en_I Natality.ogg|'''natality'''  
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|621_2_1_en_I Infecundity.ogg|'''infecundity'''  
|601_2_1_en_I Reproduction.ogg|'''reproduction'''  
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|621_2_2_en_I Sterility.ogg|'''sterility'''  
|601_3_1_en_I Birth.ogg|'''birth'''  
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|621_2_3_en_I Physiological infertility.ogg|'''physiological infertility'''  
|601_4_1_en_I Live birth.ogg|'''live birth'''  
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|621_3_1_en_I Fertility.ogg|'''fertility'''  
|601_5_1_en_I Live-born child.ogg|'''live-born child'''  
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|621_4_1_en_I Childlessness.ogg|'''childlessness'''  
|601_6_1_en_I Effective fertility.ogg|'''effective fertility'''  
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|621_4_2_en_I Infertility.ogg|'''infertility'''  
|601_7_1_en_I Total fertility.ogg|'''total fertility'''  
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|621_5_1_en_I Voluntary infertility.ogg|'''voluntary infertility'''  
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|621_5_2_en_I Voluntary sterility.ogg|'''voluntary sterility'''  
 
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}}
  
 
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[[en-I:fertility]] [[ar-I:خصوبة الفعالة]] [[cs-I:plodnost]] [[de-I:Fruchtbarkeit]] [[es-I:fecundidad]] [[fi-I:syntyneisyys]] [[fr-I:fécondité]] [[it-I:fecondità]] [[pl-I:płodność]] [[pt-I:FECUNDIDADE]] [[ru-I:Плодовитость]]  
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Latest revision as of 10:58, 14 February 2010

Fertility  (FERTILITY)


The capacity of a man, a woman or a couple to participate in reproduction (i.e., the production of a live child) is called fecundity1. The lack of that capacity is called infecundity2, sterility2 or physiological infertility2. Fertility3 (601-1) on the other hand means actual reproductive performance —whether applied to an individual or group. It should be noted that in many Latin languages, the etymological equivalents of fertility and fecundity are used in a sense diametrically opposite to that in English. Thus, the French fécondité or the Spanish fecondidad are properly translated by fertility, and fertilité or fertilidad by fecundity. It should also be noted that although the conventions outlined above are generally followed by demographers, the terms fertility and fecundity are used much more loosely in medical literature, where they are sometimes treated as being almost synonymous. Childlessness4 may be due to sterility, but like the word infertility4 includes both physiological infertility (621-2) and voluntary infertility5 which is often inaccurately called voluntary sterility5.

  • 1. fecundity n. — fecund adj. The term sub-fecundity when applied to an individual means that the capacity is below normal; it is also sometimes applied to a group of persons rather than to an individual.
  • 2. sterility n. — sterile adj. — sterilize v., to make sterile, sterilization n., the operation of sterilizing. — infecundity n. — infecund adj.
  • 3. fertility n. — adj. fertile. The term sub-fertility has been used to apply both to persons and to groups of low fertility, and also to groups which should properly be called sub-fecund, because their low fertility is due to physiological causes.
  • 4. infertility n. — infertile adj. — childlessness n. — childless adj.


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