Sterility (physiology)
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Sterility is the physiological inability to effect sexual reproduction in a living thing, members of whose kind have been produced sexually. Sterility has a wide range of causes. It may be an inherited trait, as in the mule; or it may be acquired from the environment, for example through physical injury or disease, or by exposure to radiation.
Sterility is defined as the inability to produce a biological child, while infertility is defined as the inability to conceive after a certain period.
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