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sperm

[spurm] / spɜrm /


NOUN
seminal fluid
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She regularly said in emails to patients that Firdevs would order sperm from the sperm bank Cryos on their behalf.

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

The BBC has also now learnt that the world's largest sperm bank, Cryos International, has blacklisted Dogus clinic since 2016.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

The sperm bank revealed to us it had blacklisted Dogus in 2016 over a concern that the clinic had failed to order Cryos sperm for a patient despite saying it would.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

How could a father’s sperm “absorb” the instructions to produce his daughter’s “generative parts,” Aristotle asked, when none of these parts was to be found anywhere in the father’s body?

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

We can only suppose that the final development of the sperms is the result of the presence of the single X chromosome in the successive generations of male gametocytes before the reduction divisions.

From Hormones and Heredity by J. T. Cunningham




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