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sterility
 
Noun sterility has 2 senses
  1. asepsis, antisepsis, sterility, sterileness - (of non-living objects) the state of being free of pathogenic organisms
    --1 is a kind of sanitariness
  2. sterility, infertility - the state of being unable to produce offspring; in a woman it is an inability to conceive; in a man it is an inability to impregnate
    --2 is a kind of physiological state, physiological condition
    --2 has particulars:
     impotence, impotency; barrenness; cacogenesis; dysgenesis
sterile sterile catheter sterileness sterilisation sterilise sterilised steriliser sterilising sterility sterilization sterilize sterilized sterilizer stering steriod steriotype sterksel

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