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# sterility

**Sterility** is the physiological inability to effect sexual reproduction in a living thing, members of whose kind have been produced sexually. Sterility has a wide range of causes. It may be an inherited trait, as in the mule; or it may be acquired from the environment, for example through physical injury or [disease](https://mdpathyqa.com/subjects/), or by exposure to radiation.

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