A condition yielding nothing of value

Usage examples of barrenness.

It clearly points out those temperaments which are compatible with each other and harmoniously blend, and also those which, when united in marriage, result in barrenness, or produce in the offspring imbecility, deformity, and idiocy.

Thus similarity of temperament results in barrenness while dissimilarity makes the vital magnetism all the more powerful.

Being widely known as specialists, devoting our undivided attention to chronic affections, and having unusual facilities for the investigation and management of such cases, we have been applied to in innumerable instances, to ascertain the causes of barrenness and effect its removal.

The causes of barrenness may be obliteration of the canal of the neck of the womb, sealing up of its mouth, or inflammation resulting in adhesion of the walls of the vagina, thus obstructing the passage to the uterus.

Again, the cause of barrenness may either be a diseased condition of the ovaries, preventing them from maturing healthy germs, or chronic inflammation of the mucous membrane of the neck of the uterus, which does not render conception impossible, but improbable.

An extensive observation and experience in the treatment of sterility, convinces us that, in the majority of cases, barrenness is due to some form of disease which can be easily remedied.

When enumerating the causes of barrenness we mentioned that chronic inflammation of the mucous membrane of the mouth and neck of the womb was the most common affection that defeats conception.

If barrenness continue, the case should be unreservedly submitted, either in person or by letter, to a physician skilled in the diagnosis and treatment of these affections.

A frequent cause of barrenness is stricture of the neck of the uterus.

If a weed established itself, then the grove would become one plant larger, one plant stronger, and the balance of the Tablelands would tilt one mote away from barrenness, toward fertility.

The barrenness of Judaism is done away in him, and the emptiness of Rationalistic criticism is successfully met by the fullness found in Christianity.

The scarcity of living creatures of the wild grew to be an absolute barrenness, as far as the trekkers knew.

Its larger significance, its greater meaning, Eccles takes to be this: suffering, deprivation, barrenness, hardship, lack are all an indispensable part of the education, the initiation, as it were, of any of those who would follow Jesus Christ.

Joshua returned to the cupboard and swept it bare, flung out the boots and pantoffles that stood ranged upon its floor, and stepped back to observe with pride the barrenness of his creating.

The roads were hard-rutted and the weather chilly without excessive frost, the sun watery on most days and low in the sky, but, despite the barrenness of the brown earth fields, and the stark, skeletal branches of trees arching over their heads, Cressida rejoiced in the sights of the rolling English country they passed through.