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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. Sterility is complete inability to conceive children, and is relatively rare.
  fertility rate.
 

assisted fertility  methods for helping to overcome problems with infertility, such as artificial insemination; in vitro fertilization; cryopreservation of pre-embryos, oocytes, sperm, and embryos; micromanipulation of oocytes and embryos in vitro; gamete intrafallopian transfer; surrogate gestational mothers; oocyte and sperm donation; and other techniques.





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