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sperm

[spurm] / spɜrm /


NOUN
seminal fluid
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Their sperm donor has withdrawn his consent for further use, and the remaining five embryos in storage will be destroyed after paying £23,000 on fertility treatment.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

When, as an adult, he fell in love with Audrey, another sperm donor baby from Paris, the question became even more pressing.

From BBC Aug. 29, 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

However, they have concerns the requested sperm and egg donors may not have been used in their fertility treatments.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

George Pocock, meanwhile, began applying a coat of sperm whale oil to the underside of the Husky Clipper.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

In the males, when mature, reduction takes place in the gametes, so that two kinds of sperms are formed, those with N chromosomes and those with N-l chromosomes.

From Hormones and Heredity by J. T. Cunningham




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