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Definition: Sperm Count |
Sperm CountNoun1. The number of sperm in an ejaculate; "the sperm count is used as an indicator of male fertility". 2. The act of estimating the number of spermatozoa in an ejaculate. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | A count of sperm in the ejaculum, expressed as number per milliliter. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Sperm Count |
| English words defined with "sperm count": orchotomy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sperm count": Sperm Injections, Intracytoplasmic. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | He has a low sperm count. (Three Men and a Baby; writing credit: Jim Cruickshank; James Orr) Its been three days and my mind is clearer, my sperm count is up and I'm able to recognise simple shapes and patterns. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Scientists have medical evidence that males with Down syndrome generally have a reduced sperm count and rarely father children. (references) | |
For men--shrinking of the testicles, reduced sperm count, infertility, baldness, development of breasts, increased risk for prostate cancer. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sperm count | 185 |
low sperm count | 143 |
increase sperm count | 80 |
normal sperm count | 21 |
increasing sperm count | 19 |
cause of low sperm count | 15 |
low sperm count treatment | 14 |
sperm count test | 8 |
masturbation sperm count | 7 |
male sperm count | 7 |
improve sperm count | 6 |
raising sperm count | 3 |
zero sperm count | 2 |
cure low sperm count | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sperm count"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 精子密度 . (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ermspay ountcay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-m-n-o-p-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: computers. | |
-2 letters: centrums, computer, computes, construe, consumer, corpsmen, costumer, counters, crumpets, customer, mounters, mucrones, pouncers, recounts, remounts, spectrum, trounces. | |
-3 letters: centrum, centums, coempts, compute, consume, contuse, copters, cornets, cornute, costume, counter, couters, crepons, croupes, crumpet, encrust, mentors, monster, mounter, munster, nostrum, oestrum, petrous, postern, postmen, posture, pouncer, pounces, pouters, precuts, prosect, proteus, punster. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-m-n-o-p-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: recoupments. | |
+2 letters: computerniks, mucoproteins, procurements. | |
+3 letters: computerising, minicomputers, paramountcies, precombustion, superromantic, unimportances. | |
+4 letters: circumspection, micropunctures, parenchymatous, pneumothoraces, precombustions, pronouncements, recomputations. | |
+5 letters: circumspections, contemporaneous, counterexamples, mercaptopurines, multiprocessing, overconsumption, pronunciamentos. | |
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