Terms Related to Marital Fertility

• Male Fertility Agents

  Compounds which increase the capacity of the male to induce conception.

• Female Fertility Agents

  Compounds which increase the capacity to conceive in females.

• Male Sterility

  Diminished or absent ability of the male to effect conception.

• Intersexuality

  Originally, a state characterized by the presence of both male and female sex organs. In humans, true hermaphroditism is caused by anomalous differentiation of the ...

• Female Sterility

  Diminished or absent ability of a female to achieve conception.

• X-Bearing Sperm

  The female sex chromosome, being the differential sex chromosome carried by half the male gametes and all female gametes in man and other male-heterogametic species.

• Hermaphroditism

  Originally, a state characterized by the presence of both male and female sex organs. In humans, true hermaphroditism is caused by anomalous differentiation of the ...