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sperm

[spurm] / spɜrm /


NOUN
seminal fluid
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Men can contribute to babies well into their 80s—yes, sperm quality declines but not that much—while the ability to get pregnant is pretty much capped at age 45.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

It was mating season for the sperm whales.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

A couple have spoken of their relief to be rescued after a sperm whale collided with their yacht.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

For men using testosterone therapy under the guidance of a physician, there is a “recovery” period between ending testosterone therapy and sperm counts returning to within normal levels, but it’s often not pre-testosterone levels.

From Slate ● Sep. 13, 2026

Every plant inherited one copy from each parent—one allele from father, via sperm, and one from mother, via the egg.

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

Half the eggs, therefore, contain an X chromosome, and half a Y, while all the sperms contain an X chromosome.

From Hormones and Heredity by J. T. Cunningham


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