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semen
The whitish and viscous liquid, formed by a large number of sperm produced in the testicles, to which secretions from the seminal vesicles, prostate and bulbourethral glands are added, and which is emitted with ejaculation. It is also known as seminal fluid or spermatic fluid.
Grammatical category Noun
Field Anatomy, physiology and embryology
Level of specialization Medium
Definition source DMT
Gender relationship Yes, man
Specific to one sex Yes
Prevalence Man
Variants
Synonym
Formal
spermatic fluid
Formal
Equivalents

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semen
Associated concepts
Type of
bodily secretions
Examples
However, if a total absence of germ cells is observed in the semen analysis, the patient is diagnosed as having azoospermia.
Finally, the fact that patients with normal semen parameters according to these criteria are then diagnosed as infertile shows the low predictive value of basic semen analysis (Singh and Jaiswal, 2011; Esteves et al., 2014).
Collocations
WITH NOUNS
donor | partner semen || semen parameters | samples | analysis || quality | abnormalities
WITH VERBS
use | include || donate semen