noun
- Of non-living objects. ( the state of being free of pathogenic organisms)
- synonyms: asepsis, antisepsis, sterileness
- 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.
- synonyms: infertility
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