0 (in animals and people) the condition of being unable to produce young, or (in plants) the condition of being unable to produce plants or crops -- （动物或人的）不育；（植物的）不实
They complained about the emotional sterility of their marriages. 他们相互倾诉了对缺乏激情的婚姻的绝望。
1 the condition of being free from anything that can cause disease -- 消过毒的，灭过菌的
They often lead to developmental failure or sterility.
Therefore, we use data from different chromosomes to compare the physical length of introgressions which result in male sterility.
However, considering estimated levels of sterility and fecundability, this does not seem very likely.
Another activity is the evaluation of certain medical devices, in particular, those requiring sterility.
Declining venereal disease reduces involuntary sterility as well as fetal loss.
In addition, all three pairs show ' cryptic ' sterility of either hybrid females or pure-species females mated to heterospecific males.
They might just not have tested their reproductive capacity and thus there may be some latent sterility or sub-fecundity among them.
Strikingly, hybrid sterility required having a particular allele at four separate loci - a four-locus epistatic interaction !
