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sperm

[spurm] / spɜrm /


NOUN
seminal fluid
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The couple often used Xuan’s sperm and a donor egg to conceive the children, documents reviewed by the Journal showed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

It was mating season for the sperm whales.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Young men often don’t know their fertility status and might have a low sperm count to begin with.

From Slate ● Sep. 13, 2026

Their sperm donor has withdrawn his consent for further use, and the remaining five embryos in storage will be destroyed after paying £23,000 on fertility treatment.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

How could something as complex as a human form emerge out of the union of sperm and 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

We had our pick of half a dozen sperms and we took after a bull that seemed promising.

From Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers by W. Bertram Foster




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