Diocles the physician says that either no genital sperm1 is projected, or, if there be, it is in a less quantity than nature requires, or there is no prolific2 faculty3 in it; or there is a deficiency of a due proportion of heat, cold, moisture, and dryness; or there is a resolution of the generative parts. The Stoics4 attribute sterility5 to the obliquity6 of the yard, by which means it is not able to ejaculate in a due manner, or to the unproportionable magnitude of the parts, the matrix being so contracted as not to have a capacity to receive. Erasistratus assigns it to the womb’s being more callous7 or more carneous, thinner or smaller, than nature does require.

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sperm
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n.精子,精液 | |
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prolific
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adj.丰富的,大量的;多产的,富有创造力的 | |
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n.才能;学院,系;(学院或系的)全体教学人员 | |
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禁欲主义者,恬淡寡欲的人,不以苦乐为意的人( stoic的名词复数 ) | |
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sterility
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n.不生育,不结果,贫瘠,消毒,无菌 | |
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obliquity
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n.倾斜度 | |
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callous
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adj.无情的,冷淡的,硬结的,起老茧的 | |
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