noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fertility clinic (= helping people to become pregnant )
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We scheduled an appointment at the fertility clinic.
fertility drug
fertility/infertility treatment (= treatment to help someone who is unable to have children )
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Mrs Smith received fertility treatment using donor eggs.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
high
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Dual graduate couples have the highest fertility of all, if family size up to four children only is considered.
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Utah has the highest fertility rate in the country, and the biggest and youngest households.
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Their income relative to their parents will be correspondingly higher , their fertility will be high, and so the cycle will continue.
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Such patches still retain high levels of fertility .
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On this view high fertility is economically irrational, or at least is made so by the new circumstances.
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Catholic areas generally retained higher fertility than Protestant ones.
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Clustering of high fertility families, and geographical and social isolation of some estates, may be important too.
low
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There is a slight question-mark about low fertility in the breed.
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Educated women had lower fertility rates, and the children they did have were significantly healthier.
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Neither is it true that well-developed contraceptive techniques are necessary to achieve low fertility .
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In the developed world, most nations professed themselves deeply concerned about low fertility rates.
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Better contraception does not necessarily mean lower fertility , although it should mean less unwanted fertility.
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Conversely, child survival can help lower fertility by increasing intervals between births.
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The strongest influence religion has on slowing the transition to low fertility is among poor and uneducated women in rural areas.
■ NOUN
clinic
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Researchers at fertility clinics say that they are already besieged by requests to clone.
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He intends to invite some of these couples and top fertility clinic experts to appear before his panel.
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Therefore, technically somebody had stolen a fertility clinic .
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However, stem cells are generally taken from embryos created and routinely discarded all the time in fertility clinics .
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Just about every fertility clinic in the country was set up with a government grant.
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Most of the country's fertility clinics were listed, although none of the catalogues was up to date.
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The picture was taken at a fertility clinic and was used to illustrate the Princess's caring nature.
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Although fertility clinics must have independent, trained counsellors available by law, clients are not compelled to attend counselling.
decline
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These differentials give us important clues about the motivation and causes of the fertility decline .
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A significant fertility decline has also been recorded, most of it attained before the enactment of the one-child policy.
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In his latest book on fertility decline , J.A. Banks dismisses the argument that fertility control results from economically rational behaviour.
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Research compiled by the Population Council indicates that abortion has contributed to without being indispensable to, fertility declines in every region.
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Many of the classic economic and social indicators of fertility decline had been present for a long time in nineteenth-century Britain.
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But in most the pace of fertility decline has diminished since the early l980s.
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Legal abortion Legal abortion in Britain since 1967 came too late to explain the beginning of fertility decline .
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These are tempting explanations for fertility decline .
drug
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Up to 80 percent of these births were the result of fertility drugs or in vitro procedures.
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She became pregnant after taking fertility drugs , which caused her to produce a number of eggs.
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While multiple births have increased in recent years because of the success of fertility drugs , sextuplets still are rare.
pattern
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Changing mortality and fertility patterns are likely to have contributed to this fall.
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Two major problems dominate further enquiry into today's fertility patterns and trends in Britain and the whole industrial world.
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It can not be overemphasized that many non-biological factors mitigate the influence of fertility patterns upon health and mortality.
problem
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Our findings are based on a cohort of women seeking insemination treatment because their partners had a fertility problem .
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Half of all 13-to 29-year-old males tested have fertility problems .
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Panayiotis Zavos and Severino Antinori said 2,000 women with fertility problems had volunteered for the experiment.
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No evidence was found of fertility problems in male workers.
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Therapeutic counselling for long-term problems - these may be triggered by the fertility problem and sometimes need outside referral to marital therapy.
rate
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The decline in the general fertility rate was matched by a reduction in family size.
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The results suggest that fertility rates are a function not so much of religion as of education and employment.
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Utah has the highest fertility rate in the country, and the biggest and youngest households.
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Educated women had lower fertility rates , and the children they did have were significantly healthier.
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The relationship between fertility rates and mortality rates has created a population structure which has varied substantially during the period in question.
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In the developed world, most nations professed themselves deeply concerned about low fertility rates .
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The fertility rate of railway workers declined rapidly following the expansion of promotion hierarchies at the end of the century.
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It shows the family size a woman would have if she experienced current age-specific fertility rates through her lifetime.
rite
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Yet, the work's direction is quite the opposite of that conventionally assigned to the fertility rite .
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Those assembled along the hill lines are keeping alive one of the world's most ancient and wide spread fertility rites .
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She is an accomplished mage and oversees all the complex fertility rites of Avelorn and Ulthuan.
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In it the whole idea of the fertility rite is exploded, using the very forms and devices of the traditional ritual.
soil
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The non-burrowing earthworms play a different role in soil fertility .
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A green manure is a crop grown mainly to improve soil fertility .
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Synthetic fertilisers and pesticides are banned and soil fertility and pest control is achieved through crop rotation and mixed farming systems.
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As well as contributing to declining soil fertility , such high sediment removal are causing problems with water supply by increasing reservoir siltation rates.
treatment
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The fertility counsellor's main role is to help clients explore the complex issues involved in fertility treatment . 3.
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A: I agree that Resolve offers very important assistance to couples and individuals involved in fertility treatments .
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The 56-year-old Northamptonshire woman received fertility treatment using donor eggs and her husband's sperm.
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The sextuplets were born after their Mum Sue had fertility treatment .
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But following fertility treatment Lynda had an early menopause, so children of their own were out.
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She had not been receiving any fertility treatment and it was only after a routine scan that all was revealed.
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It is, of course, important that counsellors themselves have a detailed knowledge of fertility treatments .
■ VERB
control
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They had always had the potential to control their fertility and did so when necessary.
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That all women for the first time could control their fertility safely, easily, and reliably was another reason for change.
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These spirits of the forest are considered to control the fertility of women and to prosper men's hunting.
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Biology even promised to control world fertility with the Pill.
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There was even less sympathy in the medical press for women who wanted to control their own fertility .
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People must have the option and the means to control their fertility .
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The ability to control our own fertility gives women choice and timing, as well as improved overall health.
increase
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It may increase slightly but if fertility continues to decline at the present rate that is unlikely.
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Government spokesmen announced targets for increased fertility and scolded women for not bearing more children.
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Of course, if we do this two spits deep, so much deeper do we increase the potential for fertility .
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That drinking human blood can increase fertility is an old idea.
lower
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This will reinforce the trend to lower fertility .
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Empowerment increases the opportunity costs of children, prompting later marriages and increasing the divorce rate, similarly lowering fertility .
reduce
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Reproduction Smoking can reduce a woman's fertility .
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Where education reduces fertility , which is nearly everywhere, the trigger point varies according to cultural influences.
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The use of modern contraceptives, they argued, would reduce fertility and speed economic and political development.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Biology even promised to control world fertility with the Pill.
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Researchers at fertility clinics say that they are already besieged by requests to clone.
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The 56-year-old Northamptonshire woman received fertility treatment using donor eggs and her husband's sperm.
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The relationship between fertility rates and mortality rates has created a population structure which has varied substantially during the period in question.
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Throughout the nineteenth century fertility in Britain remained high.
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Utah has the highest fertility rate in the country, and the biggest and youngest households.
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We also have contraception and fertility technology.