atocia

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /əˈtəʊʃɪə/
  • Rhymes: -əʊʃɪə

Noun

atocia (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Of a woman, infertility (inability to conceive and give birth to children).
    • 1991, Women of China, page 9:
      Mr. Wei Hongkai, a veteran doctor of the Shaanxi Provincial Research Institute for Traditional Chinese Medicine, has been treating atocia (female sterility) for more than thirty years.
    • 2012, Hiroshi Takami, Treatment of Thyroid Tumor: Japanese Clinical Guidelines, page 264:
      RAI therapy is contraindicated for patients in pregnancy, but it is not related to an increase in the risk of atocia and fetal anomaly.

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