inseminationn.
/ɪnsɛmɪˈneɪʃən/ a. The action of sowing in; the casting in or implanting of seed, or of germs; also figurative.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > [noun]
sowing1362
sowa1400
sation?1440
semination1531
seeding1541
seedness1549
seedage1610
sature1657
insemination1658
grass seeding1823
semence1859
the world > life > biology > biological processes > immunogenesis > [noun] > inoculation
insemination1658
inoculation1802
1658 in E. Phillips New World Eng. Words
1682 H. More Annot. Lux Orientalis 68 in Two Choice & Useful Treat. Admitting that there is..an orderly insemination of lapsed Souls into humane Bodies.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Insemination, one of the four Kinds of Transplantation, in use for the Cure of certain Diseases. It is performed by mixing the Medium impregnated with the Mumia taken from the Patient with some fat Earth wherein has been sown the Seed of a Plant appropriate to that Disease... 'Tis supposed the Diseases will decline in proportion as the Plant grows.
1893 J. Pulsford Loyalty to Christ II. 94 Earth, Paradise, and Heaven are equally ground..susceptible of Divine insemination, and capable of yielding the fruits of God.
1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 719 In the last tube [infected with bacteria] the insemination is scantiest.
b. Immission of semen.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > immission of semen
semination1722
insemination1860
1860 T. H. Tanner On Signs & Dis. Pregnancy iv. 193 Haighton showed that conception does not generally take place in the rabbit till about 50 hours after insemination.
c. = artificial insemination n.
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the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > processes > [noun] > genetic techniques
selection1837
runting1893
sex control1898
progeny test1910
insemination1923
progeny-testing1926
transformation1928
translation1955
hybridization1959
transcription1961
reverse transcription1970
1923 Vet. Jrnl. 79 171 Apart from this kind of artificial insemination of females with ‘natural sperm’..it is also necessary to indicate the possibility of insemination with the so-called ‘artificial sperm’.
1944 Jrnl. Obstetr. & Gynaecol. 51 527/1 One donor was usually used for 4 to 8 inseminations carried out within short intervals from each other.
1944 Jrnl. Obstetr. & Gynaecol. 51 528/1 One single insemination with spermatozoa from a donor was followed by pregnancy.
1959 Chambers's Encycl. I. 652/1 When the husband is sterile and the wife fertile, insemination with semen obtained from another donor has been used with success.
1974 Times 21 Jan. 14/5 Increased beef inseminations may be connected with the subsidized switch out of dairying.
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