Sterility

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Sterile or sterility may refer to:

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

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