Fertility

Fertility (FERTILITY)

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Section	English 621	Arabic 621	Czech 621	German 621	Spanish 621	Finnish 621	French 621	Italien 621	[[pl-I:62#621\|Template:Lang name -pl 621]]	Portuguese 621	Russian 621
621-1	fecundity	توالد—قدرة على التوالد	fekundita —plodivost	Potenz —Fruchtbarkeit	fertilidad	fysiologinen hedelmällisyys —suvunjatkamiskyky	fertilité	fecondità —fertilità	zdolność rozrodcza	FERTILIDADE —PROLIFICIDADE	Плодовитость
621-2	infecundity —sterility —physiological infertility	عقم—عقر—جدب—بور الفسيولوجي	sterilita —neplodnost —infekundita	Impotenz —Sterilität	esterilidad	fysiologinen hedelmättömyys —suvunjatkamiskyvyttömyys —steriliteetti	stérilité	sterilità —infecondità	niezdolność rozrodcza —bezpłodność —fizjologiczna niepłodność	ESTERILIDADE	Бесплодие —Стерилитет
621-3	fertility	خصوبة	fertilita —plodnost	Fruchtbarkeit einer Ehe	fecundidad	hedelmällisyys	fécondité	fecondità —fertilità	płodność	FECUNDIDADE	Деторождение —Детность
621-4	childlessness —infertility	عدم الخلف—عقم اختياري	infertilita —bezdětnost	Unfruchtbarkeit einer Ehe	infecundidad	lapsettomuus	infécondité	mancanza di figli	bezdzietność —niepłodność	INFECUNDIDADE	Бездетность
621-5	voluntary infertility —voluntary sterility	جدب اختياري	chtěná infertilita	gewollte Unfruchtbarkeit	infecundidad voluntaria	vapaaehtoinen lapsettomuus	infécondité volontaire	sterilità volontaria	niepłodność świadoma	INFECUNDIDADE voluntária	Добровольное бесплодие

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.