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As medical science probes deeper into the causes of human reproductive failure, it becomes increasingly difficult to develop an all-encompassing definition for the term “infertility.” Infertility as a diagnosis applied to an individual or couple must be considered to be a relative term. In some situations, infertility merely means “reduced infertility.”
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Taymor, M.L. (1990). General Principles. In: Infertility. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0627-6_4
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