Infertility MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers

• A large number of couples all over the world including India are infertile, i.e., they are unable to produce children in spite of unprotected sexual cohabitation.
• The reasons for this could be many–physical, congenital, diseases, drugs, immunological or even psychological.
• In India, often the female is blamed for the couple being childless, but more often than not, the problem lies in the male partner. 

Infertility in Males:

• Cryptorchidism: It is a condition in which testes are unable to descend in scrotal sacs and so sperms are not produced.
• Alcoholism causes defective spermatogenesis.
• Thyroid dysfunction
• Impotency: the male is unable to erect and penetrate the penis into the vagina of the female
• Gonadotropin deficiency
• Immotile cilia - sperms are unable to move from the vagina to the upper portion of the genital tract of the female

Infertility in Females:

• Anovulation: Absence of formation of corpus luteum.
• Defective growth of uterus and vagina.
• Chronic cervicitis, presence of anti-sperm antibody, elongation of the cervix.
• Fertilization and implantation failure.
• Ectopic pregnancy.