英语词汇“sperm”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Example Sentences

Noun The sperm fertilizes the egg.

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

Evidence like sperm and a blood stain on top of a cinderblock wall near where Stitt's body was found were collected.

Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2022 Her egg was artificially inseminated by the sperm of her 63-year-old husband, Mauro, at a fertility clinic in Rome.

Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2022 Some medical and legal experts have proposed another type of end-run: creating one embryo at a time by storing sperm and eggs separately and thawing them only to create individual embryos as needed.

New York Times, 5 July 2022 But the process of ensuring the sperm is washed out can take up to three months for some patients, Werthman said.

Meena Venkataramanan, Washington Post, 1 July 2022 And Cisco offers full-time employees in the US and Canada up to a $50,000 lifetime maximum reimbursement for family planning expenses such as IVF and harvesting, freezing or storage for eggs, sperm and embryos.

Kathryn Vasel, CNN, 24 Aug. 2022 Our situation is that an uncle who was an OB/GYN donated sperm to a bank many times throughout his career.

Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 28 July 2022 Alper studied 181,800 cases looking for mistakes from small ones — like misspellings and typos — to extreme errors such as mixing up eggs, sperm or embryos.

Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE.com, 24 Nov. 2021 After all, the chances of the precise sperm colliding with the exact egg in the right fallopian tube and convening to make you—or me—are so low as to be undetectable with human mathematics.

Wired, 9 Aug. 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Noun

Middle English, from Middle French esperme, sperme, from Late Latin spermat-, sperma, from Greek, literally, seed, from speirein to sow; probably akin to Armenian p'aratem I dispense

Combining form

Greek sperm-, spermo-, from sperma

First Known Use

Noun

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

单词	sperm
释义	sperm 1 of 2 noun ˈspərm plural sperm or sperms 1 a : semen b : a male gamete especially : spermatozoon sense 1 2 : a product of the sperm whale sperm- 2 of 2 combining form variants or spermo- or sperma- or spermi- : seed : germ : sperm spermatheca spermicide Example Sentences Noun The sperm fertilizes the egg. Recent Examples on the Web Noun Evidence like sperm and a blood stain on top of a cinderblock wall near where Stitt's body was found were collected. Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2022 Her egg was artificially inseminated by the sperm of her 63-year-old husband, Mauro, at a fertility clinic in Rome. Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2022 Some medical and legal experts have proposed another type of end-run: creating one embryo at a time by storing sperm and eggs separately and thawing them only to create individual embryos as needed. New York Times, 5 July 2022 But the process of ensuring the sperm is washed out can take up to three months for some patients, Werthman said. Meena Venkataramanan, Washington Post, 1 July 2022 And Cisco offers full-time employees in the US and Canada up to a $50,000 lifetime maximum reimbursement for family planning expenses such as IVF and harvesting, freezing or storage for eggs, sperm and embryos. Kathryn Vasel, CNN, 24 Aug. 2022 Our situation is that an uncle who was an OB/GYN donated sperm to a bank many times throughout his career. Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 28 July 2022 Alper studied 181,800 cases looking for mistakes from small ones — like misspellings and typos — to extreme errors such as mixing up eggs, sperm or embryos. Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE.com, 24 Nov. 2021 After all, the chances of the precise sperm colliding with the exact egg in the right fallopian tube and convening to make you—or me—are so low as to be undetectable with human mathematics. Wired, 9 Aug. 2022 See More Word History Etymology Noun Middle English, from Middle French esperme, sperme, from Late Latin spermat-, sperma, from Greek, literally, seed, from speirein to sow; probably akin to Armenian p'aratem I dispense Combining form Greek sperm-, spermo-, from sperma First Known Use Noun 14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a Phrases Containing sperm sperm cell sperm bank sperm whale sperm count sperm nucleus sperm oil sperm donor sperm cell sperm bank sperm whale sperm count sperm nucleus sperm oil sperm donor See More Kids Definition sperm noun ˈspərm : sperm cell Medical Definition sperm noun ˈspərm plural sperm or sperms 1 : the male impregnating fluid : semen 2 : a male gamete especially : spermatozoon
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sperm

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combining form

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