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sperm

[spurm] / spɜrm /


NOUN
seminal fluid
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She says she first became concerned that Ditto was not the donor when patient co-ordinators, including Hodson, repeatedly refused to send her a medical report confirming his sperm had been used.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

That is despite Dogus having advertised its relationship with the sperm bank as a key selling point for many years.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

Rachel, who was 39 at the time, needed a sperm donor so her eggs could be fertilised in a lab to create an embryo which could then be implanted into her uterus.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

However, Firdevs has told us sperm procurement was not part of her job and she did not know patients were being informed otherwise.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

Because the chromosome number for a given species is constant, the egg and the sperm, which are to unite to form a new individual, must carry to their union only half the species number.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Using the method, the team focused on sperms with defective capacitation, a process through which sperms become capable of fertilizing an egg.

From Science Daily Mar. 5, 2024

They identified these sperms by measuring how much calcium they absorbed.

From Science Daily Mar. 5, 2024

“If we want to go international and help women and couples in different parts of the world, we need non-Danish sperm, sperms of all colours,” says Schou.

From Newsweek Mar. 13, 2015

The history of endocrinology can be traced back to Dr.Brown-Séquard injecting himself with dog sperms to study its effect on his vitality and vigor.

From Scientific American Jun. 14, 2011

The three polar bodies and the egg are comparable to the four sperms.

From A Critique of the Theory of Evolution by Thomas Hunt Morgan




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