单词 | fertility |
释义 | fertilityfer‧til‧i‧ty /fɜːˈtɪləti $ fɜːr-/ ●○○ noun [uncountable] Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS word sets
WORD SETS► Biology Collocationsaerobic, adjectiveafterbirth, nounalgae, nounalimentary canal, nounamber, nounameba, nounamino acid, nounamoeba, nounanaconda, nounanaerobic, adjectiveandrogynous, adjectiveantibody, nounantigen, nounantitoxin, nounappendage, nounarm, nounarmour, nounasexual, adjectiveassimilation, nounatrophy, verbaviary, nounbacteria, nounbacteriology, nounbarnacle, nounbile, nounbinocular vision, nounbio-, prefixbiochemistry, nounbiodegradable, adjectivebiodiversity, nounbiohazard, nounbiological, adjectivebiological clock, nounbiology, nounbiomass, nounbiome, nounbiosphere, nounblind, nounbrain, nounbreathe, verbbreed, verbbreed, nounbreeding, nounbristle, nounbulb, nouncapsule, nouncarbohydrate, nouncarbon dioxide, nouncarnivore, nouncell, nouncellular, adjectivecellulose, nouncentral nervous system, nouncervical, adjectivecholesterol, nounchromosome, nouncirculation, nouncirculatory, adjectiveclass, nounclone, nouncold-blooded, adjectiveconceive, verbconch, nounconnective tissue, nouncopulate, verbcoral reef, nouncornea, nouncoronary, adjectivecorpuscle, nouncortex, nouncortisone, nouncowrie, nouncrab, nouncrawfish, nouncrayfish, nouncreature, nouncross, verbcrossbreed, nounculture, nouncytoplasm, noundecay, verbdecay, noundecompose, verbdefecate, verbdenizen, noundextrose, noundiaphragm, noundigest, verbdigestion, noundigestive, adjectiveDNA, noundorsal, adjectivedry rot, nounduct, noundwarf, noundwarf, adjectiveecological, adjectiveecology, nounecosystem, nounegg, nounejaculate, verbembryo, nounembryonic, adjectiveenzyme, nounepidermis, nounevolution, nounevolutionary, adjectiveexcrement, nounexcrescence, nounexcrete, verbexcretion, nounexhale, verbexoskeleton, nounextinction, nounfaeces, nounfamily, nounfang, nounfat, nounfatty acid, nounfauna, nounfeces, nounfeed, verbfemale, adjectivefemale, nounferment, verbferment, nounfertile, adjectivefertility, nounfertilize, verbfission, nounflank, nounflatulence, nounflesh, nounfleshy, adjectiveflightless, adjectiveflora, nounfoetal, adjectivefoetus, nounfoliage, nounfossil, nounfreak, nounfreshwater, adjectivefructose, noungamete, nounganglion, noungene, noungene pool, noungenera, genetic, adjectivegenetic code, noungenetic engineering, noungenetic fingerprinting, noungenetics, noungenome, noungenus, noungestation, noungland, nounglandular, adjectiveglucose, noungluten, noungonad, noungrass snake, noungrow, verbgrowth, nounhabitat, nounhaemoglobin, nounhearing, nounheart, nounhemisphere, nounherbivore, nounhereditary, adjectiveheredity, nounhermaphrodite, nounhibernate, verbhistamine, nounhoming, adjectivehormone, nounhost, nounimpregnate, verbimpulse, nounincubate, verbindigenous, adjectiveinfected, adjectiveinfertile, adjectiveinfest, verbingest, verbinhale, verbinseminate, verbinsensate, adjectiveinsulin, nounintegument, nounintercourse, nouninterferon, nounintestine, nouninvertebrate, nouninvoluntary, adjectiveiris, nounjaw, nounjelly, nounkidney, nounkrill, nounlactate, verblactation, nounlactic acid, nounleech, nounleg, nounlesser, adjectivelichen, nounlife, nounlife cycle, nounlife form, nounligament, nounlimb, nounlimpet, nounlipid, nounliver, nounliving fossil, nounlocomotion, nounlymph, nounlymph node, nounmale, adjectivemale, nounmammal, nounmandible, nounmate, nounmate, verbmembrane, nounmetabolism, nounmetabolize, verbmetamorphosis, nounmicrobe, nounmicrobiology, nounmicroorganism, nounmicroscopic, adjectivemigrate, verbmigratory, adjectivemiscarriage, nounmolar, nounmorphology, nounmotor, adjectivemould, nounmouth, nounmucous membrane, nounmucus, nounmulticellular, adjectivemuscle, nounmuscular, adjectivemutant, nounmutate, verbmutation, nounnatural history, nounnatural selection, nounnature, nounneck, nounnectar, nounnerve, nounnervous, adjectivenervous system, nounneural, adjectiveneuro-, prefixneurology, nounnode, nounnose, nounnostril, nounnucleic acid, nounnucleus, nounnutrient, nounnutriment, nounoesophagus, nounoestrogen, nounolfactory, adjectiveoptic, adjectiveorgan, nounorganic, adjectiveorganic chemistry, nounorganism, nounorifice, nounossify, verbosteo-, prefixoutgrowth, nounova, ovary, nounoverwinter, verboviduct, nounoviparous, adjectiveovulate, verbovum, nounparasite, nounpathogen, nounpedigree, nounpelvic, adjectivepelvis, nounpenile, adjectivepenis, nounpepsin, nounperiod, nounperspiration, nounperspire, verbphotosynthesis, nounphylum, nounpigment, nounpigmentation, nounplankton, nounplasma, nounpollinate, verbpostnatal, adjectivepregnancy, nounpregnant, adjectivepremature, adjectiveprenatal, adjectiveproduct, nounproliferation, nounpropagate, verbprotein, nounprotoplasm, nounprotozoan, nounpuberty, nounpulmonary, adjectivepulp, nounpulsation, nounputrefy, verbputrid, adjectivered blood cell, nounregurgitate, verbrenal, adjectivereproduce, verbreproduction, nounreproductive, adjectiverespiration, nounrespiratory, adjectiverespire, verbretina, nounroot, nounrot, verbrot, nounruff, nounsac, nounsaliva, nounsalivary gland, nounsalivate, verbsaltwater, adjectivescale, nounscallop, nounscaly, adjectivesebaceous, adjectivesecrete, verbsecretion, nounsemen, nounsense organ, nounsensory, adjectiveserum, nounsex, nounsex, verbsexless, adjectivesexual intercourse, nounsheath, nounshell, nounsibling, nounskeletal, adjectiveskeleton, nounskin, nounskull, nounspasm, nounspasmodic, adjectivespecies, nounspecimen, nounsperm, nounspiderweb, nounspinal cord, nounspine, nounspineless, adjectivestarch, nounstem cell, nounstimulate, verbstimulus, nounstrain, nounsubject, nounsubspecies, nounsucker, nounsucrose, nounsweat, verbsweat, nounsweat gland, nounsymbiosis, nounsystemic, adjectivetail, nountaxonomy, nounteeth, testosterone, nountest-tube baby, nountissue, nountrachea, nountube, noununicellular, adjectiveurethra, nounuric, adjectiveurinate, verburine, nounvariety, nounvector, nounvein, nounvenom, nounvenomous, adjectiveventricle, nounvertebra, nounvertebrate, nounvivisection, nounwarm-blooded, adjectivewean, verbwildlife, nounwindpipe, nounyolk, noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a fertility clinic 1the ability of the land or soil to produce good crops2the ability of a person, animal, or plant to produce babies, young animals, or seeds OPP infertility (=helping people to become pregnant)· We scheduled an appointment at the fertility clinic. ► fertility/infertility treatment (=treatment to help someone who is unable to have children)· Mrs Smith received fertility treatment using donor eggs. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► high· Dual graduate couples have the highest fertility of all, if family size up to four children only is considered.· Utah has the highest fertility rate in the country, and the biggest and youngest households.· Their income relative to their parents will be correspondingly higher, their fertility will be high, and so the cycle will continue.· Such patches still retain high levels of fertility.· On this view high fertility is economically irrational, or at least is made so by the new circumstances.· Catholic areas generally retained higher fertility than Protestant ones.· Clustering of high fertility families, and geographical and social isolation of some estates, may be important too. ► low· There is a slight question-mark about low fertility in the breed.· Educated women had lower fertility rates, and the children they did have were significantly healthier.· Neither is it true that well-developed contraceptive techniques are necessary to achieve low fertility.· In the developed world, most nations professed themselves deeply concerned about low fertility rates.· Better contraception does not necessarily mean lower fertility, although it should mean less unwanted fertility.· Conversely, child survival can help lower fertility by increasing intervals between births.· The strongest influence religion has on slowing the transition to low fertility is among poor and uneducated women in rural areas. NOUN► clinic· Researchers at fertility clinics say that they are already besieged by requests to clone.· He intends to invite some of these couples and top fertility clinic experts to appear before his panel.· Therefore, technically somebody had stolen a fertility clinic.· However, stem cells are generally taken from embryos created and routinely discarded all the time in fertility clinics.· Just about every fertility clinic in the country was set up with a government grant.· Most of the country's fertility clinics were listed, although none of the catalogues was up to date.· The picture was taken at a fertility clinic and was used to illustrate the Princess's caring nature.· Although fertility clinics must have independent, trained counsellors available by law, clients are not compelled to attend counselling. ► decline· These differentials give us important clues about the motivation and causes of the fertility decline.· A significant fertility decline has also been recorded, most of it attained before the enactment of the one-child policy.· In his latest book on fertility decline, J.A. Banks dismisses the argument that fertility control results from economically rational behaviour.· Research compiled by the Population Council indicates that abortion has contributed to without being indispensable to, fertility declines in every region.· Many of the classic economic and social indicators of fertility decline had been present for a long time in nineteenth-century Britain.· But in most the pace of fertility decline has diminished since the early l980s.· Legal abortion Legal abortion in Britain since 1967 came too late to explain the beginning of fertility decline.· These are tempting explanations for fertility decline. ► drug· Up to 80 percent of these births were the result of fertility drugs or in vitro procedures.· She became pregnant after taking fertility drugs, which caused her to produce a number of eggs.· While multiple births have increased in recent years because of the success of fertility drugs, sextuplets still are rare. ► pattern· Changing mortality and fertility patterns are likely to have contributed to this fall.· Two major problems dominate further enquiry into today's fertility patterns and trends in Britain and the whole industrial world.· It can not be overemphasized that many non-biological factors mitigate the influence of fertility patterns upon health and mortality. ► problem· Our findings are based on a cohort of women seeking insemination treatment because their partners had a fertility problem.· Half of all 13-to 29-year-old males tested have fertility problems.· Panayiotis Zavos and Severino Antinori said 2,000 women with fertility problems had volunteered for the experiment.· No evidence was found of fertility problems in male workers.· Therapeutic counselling for long-term problems - these may be triggered by the fertility problem and sometimes need outside referral to marital therapy. ► rate· The decline in the general fertility rate was matched by a reduction in family size.· The results suggest that fertility rates are a function not so much of religion as of education and employment.· Utah has the highest fertility rate in the country, and the biggest and youngest households.· Educated women had lower fertility rates, and the children they did have were significantly healthier.· The relationship between fertility rates and mortality rates has created a population structure which has varied substantially during the period in question.· In the developed world, most nations professed themselves deeply concerned about low fertility rates.· The fertility rate of railway workers declined rapidly following the expansion of promotion hierarchies at the end of the century.· It shows the family size a woman would have if she experienced current age-specific fertility rates through her lifetime. ► rite· Yet, the work's direction is quite the opposite of that conventionally assigned to the fertility rite.· Those assembled along the hill lines are keeping alive one of the world's most ancient and wide spread fertility rites.· She is an accomplished mage and oversees all the complex fertility rites of Avelorn and Ulthuan.· In it the whole idea of the fertility rite is exploded, using the very forms and devices of the traditional ritual. ► soil· The non-burrowing earthworms play a different role in soil fertility.· A green manure is a crop grown mainly to improve soil fertility.· Synthetic fertilisers and pesticides are banned and soil fertility and pest control is achieved through crop rotation and mixed farming systems.· As well as contributing to declining soil fertility, such high sediment removal are causing problems with water supply by increasing reservoir siltation rates. ► treatment· The fertility counsellor's main role is to help clients explore the complex issues involved in fertility treatment. 3.· A: I agree that Resolve offers very important assistance to couples and individuals involved in fertility treatments.· The 56-year-old Northamptonshire woman received fertility treatment using donor eggs and her husband's sperm.· The sextuplets were born after their Mum Sue had fertility treatment.· But following fertility treatment Lynda had an early menopause, so children of their own were out.· She had not been receiving any fertility treatment and it was only after a routine scan that all was revealed.· It is, of course, important that counsellors themselves have a detailed knowledge of fertility treatments. VERB► control· They had always had the potential to control their fertility and did so when necessary.· That all women for the first time could control their fertility safely, easily, and reliably was another reason for change.· These spirits of the forest are considered to control the fertility of women and to prosper men's hunting.· Biology even promised to control world fertility with the Pill.· There was even less sympathy in the medical press for women who wanted to control their own fertility.· People must have the option and the means to control their fertility.· The ability to control our own fertility gives women choice and timing, as well as improved overall health. ► increase· It may increase slightly but if fertility continues to decline at the present rate that is unlikely.· Government spokesmen announced targets for increased fertility and scolded women for not bearing more children.· Of course, if we do this two spits deep, so much deeper do we increase the potential for fertility.· That drinking human blood can increase fertility is an old idea. ► lower· This will reinforce the trend to lower fertility.· Empowerment increases the opportunity costs of children, prompting later marriages and increasing the divorce rate, similarly lowering fertility. ► reduce· Reproduction Smoking can reduce a woman's fertility.· Where education reduces fertility, which is nearly everywhere, the trigger point varies according to cultural influences.· The use of modern contraceptives, they argued, would reduce fertility and speed economic and political development. |
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