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Cold sterilization
Immersing heat-sensitive instruments into microbicidal fluids, such as glutaraldehyde, orthophthalaldehyde, or concentrated hydrogen peroxide to rid them of bacteria, fungi, mycobacteria, or viruses.
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Relative sterility
Sterility due to causes other than a defect of the sex organs.
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Primary sterility
Sterility resulting from failure of the testis or ovary to produce functional germ cells.
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Male sterility
The inability of a male either to produce sperm or to produce viable sperm, thereby prohibiting fertilization of the ovum. This may result from congenital factors, such as cryptorchidism or maldevelopment of the testicular ducts or testis, or acquired factors, such as radiation to, or surgical removal of, the testes.
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Female sterility
The inability of a female to conceive. This may result from a failure to produce or transport viable ova or to sustain a pregnancy due to a congenital absence or maldevelopment of the reproductive organs. Sterility also may be secondary to endocrine disorders, infections, trauma, neoplasms, inactivation of the ovaries by irradiation, or surgical excision…
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Absolute sterility
The inability to produce offspring as a result of anatomical or physiological factors that prevent production of functional germ cells, conception, or the normal development of a zygote.
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Sterilant
Any agent used to render objects free of living or potentially infectious organisms.
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Steric
Concerning the spatial arrangement of atoms in a chemical compound.
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Stereotropism
A response toward (positive stereotropism) or away from (negative stereotropism) a solid object.
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Stereospecific
Specific for only one of the possible receptors on a cell.
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