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Sterility

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Sterile or sterility may refer to:

  • Asepsis, a state of being free from biological contaminants
  • Sterile (archaeology), sediment containing no evidence of human activity
  • Sterilization (microbiology), any process that eliminates or kills all forms of life from an item or field
  • Sterility (physiology), an inability of a living organism to effect sexual reproduction
    • Infertility, the condition of a person, animal or plant being unable to bear children, especially through natural means
  • Sterile Records, a record label formed in London in 1979 by Nigel Ayers and Caroline K of the post-industrial music group Nocturnal Emissions

See also

  • Sterilization (disambiguation)
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