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5 unusual facts about infertility


A Father for Brittany

Keith Lussier - a hard working man - and his wife Kim - a speech therapist - are high school sweethearts unable to conceive.

Infertility

Pixar's Up contains a depiction of infertility in an extended life montage that lasts the first few minutes of the film.

Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders

Jonathan is a respected, though obnoxious columnist, and Madeline is desperate for a baby, as she and Jonathan have been unable to conceive.

Sterility

Infertility, the condition of a person being unable to bear children, especially through natural means

Unrelated

Verena seeks her out, and the two reconcile after Anna reveals she has discovered that she can't have children.


Hamchoon

Hamchoon Women's Clinic (함춘여성크리닉), a specialized clinic for infertility and genetic testings.

Indian summer

A famous use of the phrase in American literature is the title of Van Wyck Brooks' New England: Indian Summer (1940), chosen to suggest inconsistency, infertility, and depleted capabilities, a period of seemingly robust strength that is only an imitation of an earlier season of actual strength.

Jhoomar

What follows in the second half of the film is the metamorphosis of Saima from a naïve village girl to a defiant, courageous, and larger-than-life heroine who braves the horrific circumstances of prison in order to eventually redeem herself in the eyes of Shahnawaz, who, in a twist ending, is the one suffering from infertility and not she.

Naomi Bennett

She attended Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and is a member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, the Society of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Neutersol

Neutersol is a brand name for Zinc gluconate (neutralized by Arginine), a compound used to produce infertility in the male dog by chemical disruption of the testicle, intended as an alternative to surgical neutering.

Pilegesh

Since having children in Judaism was considered a great blessing, legitimate wives often gave their maids to their husbands so they could have children with them when those women themselves where childless, normally because of infertility issues as in the cases of Sarah and Hagar; Leah and Zilpah; and Rachel and Bilhah.

Religious response to assisted reproductive technology

Spouses who still suffer from infertility after exhausting legitimate medical procedures should unite themselves with the Lord's Cross, the source of all spiritual fecundity.

Siblicide

The extra “excess” egg is possibly laid either due to exploit the possibility of elevated food abundance (as seen in the Blue-footed Booby, Sula nebouxii) or due to the chance of sterility in one egg.

The Wurn Technique

The Wurn Technique is a physical therapy technique used as a form of alternative medicine that promoters assert can be used to treat pain, infertility, sexual dysfunction and adhesion-related conditions.


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