Look up: fertility

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   Fertility
   Actual capability of an organism to produce living offspring. On a herd basis, best expressed as the number of calves born per year as a percentage of the number of females exposed to the bull in the previous year. May also be expressed as the number of conceptions confirmed by pregnancy diagnosis or the calving percentage of services or inseminations. It may be expressed as the percentage of non-returns (i.e., cows which did not come on heat after insemination) but obviously this is not a satisfactory method.
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   fertility
   [Noun] Ability to have children.
   Example: The childless woman took drugs to improve her fertility.
   See also: infertile
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   fertility
   The ability to have children.
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   Fertility
   The average number of live-born children produced by women of childbearing age in a particular society.
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   fertility
   [n] - the state of being fertile
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   Fertility
   the incidence of child-bearing in a country's population
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   fertility
   Ability to conceive and to produce offspring: for litter-bearing species the number of offspring per litter is used as a measure of fertility. Note: Reduced fertility is sometimes referred to as subfertility.
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   Fertility
   The ability to have children.
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   Fertility
   the ability to produce a child
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    Fertility
    Fertility: The ability to conceive and have children, the ability to become pregnant through normal sexual activity. Infertility is defined as the failure to conceive after a year of regular intercourse without contraception. Infertility is on the rise in many countries. The proportion of women in the US having their first baby at or after age 30 h ...
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    fertility
    the actual reproductive performance of an individual,a group,or a population Category: Statistics • the ability of soil to aid plant growth,including the supply of nutrients in desirable proportions and amounts Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries • relates the number of live births to the number of women,couples,or very rarely,men Cate...
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    Fertility
    Fer·til'i·ty noun [ Latin fertilitas : confer French fertilité .] The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile invention; quickness; readiness; as, the fertility of soil, or of imagination. ' fertility of resource.' E. Everett. « And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps Cor ...
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    fertility
    <biology> The capacity to conceive or induce conception and thus generate offspring. ... (12 May 1997) ...
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    fertility
    fecundity noun the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring
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    Fertility
    `Fertility` is the natural capability of giving life. As a measure, `Fertility Rate` is the number of children born per couple, person or population. This is different to fecundity, which is defined as the `potential` for reproduction (influenced by gamete production, fertilisation and carrying a pregnancy to term). In the English language, the term was originally applied only to females, but increasingly is applied to males as well, as common un...
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    fertility
    (fәr-til´ĭ-te) the capacity to conceive or to induce conception. adj., fer´tile., adj. infertility is the inability to conceive after one year of sexual relations without contraception, or the inability to carry pregnancy to a live birth. It affects about one in six couples of childbearing age. Steril...
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    Fertility
    • (n.) The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile invention; quickness; readiness; as, the fertility of soil, or of imagination.
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    fertility
    the capacity to conceive or induce conception.
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    fertility
    The actual production of live offspring, i.e., does not include stillbirths.
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    fertility
    fertility: see infertility.
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