noun: 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
Russell
"Fortunately, the human body can stand quite a dosage of such rays before showing it by bone cancer, leukemia and other effects of radioactivity, but also unfortunately, these rays are accumulative. They never leave the body. The defects mentioned above, including sterility, are incurable advance notices of the fact that you have reached your limit of power to take more of these translucent rays into your body." [Atomic Suicide, page 263]
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