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sperm

[spurm] / spɜrm /


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

From Slate ● Sep. 13, 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

Several patient co-ordinators at the IVF clinic, including Hodson, told Rachel that Firdevs would arrange her sperm donor order.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

Rachel selected an anonymous Danish sperm donor on the Cryos website.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

And these particles were passed along, intact, to the next generation through sperm and egg.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

From Science Daily ● Mar. 5, 2024

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

“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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