sperm

Converse of object

• donate: In April 2005, the law surrounding donating sperm, eggs or embryos was changed.
• import: Under these Special Directions, every time a licensed clinic wishes to import sperm into the UK, they must apply to the HFEA.
• produce: Men may be unable to produce sperm for a variety of reasons.

Converse of subject

• fertilize: If the egg is not fertilized by sperm, it dies and the egg and uterus lining are shed as a period.

Adjective modifier

• motile: The time to conception was inversely related to the number of motile sperm seen.
• frozen: One idea would be to inject frozen mammoth sperm recovered from the ice into the eggs of female elephants.
• abnormal: They found that abnormal sperm was more often found in the men with epilepsy.
• mature: Those cells went on to develop into mature, functional sperm.
• male: Male sperm contains only enough mitochondria to power the sperm to the surface of the egg it doe not enter the egg.
• fresh: She said the couple had considered buying fresh sperm over the Internet, or adopting.

Modifies a noun

• whale: Lost Whales For 10 days a pod of five sperm whales has been trapped in the North Sea, seeking a way out.
• motility: In a controlled trial, 100 men with low sperm motility received either 57 mg of zinc twice daily or a placebo.
• donor: Fathers are now obsolete, nothing more than mobile sperm donors creating new drones for the States new consumer class.
• count: There has also been a fall in sperm counts over the same time period.
• injection: Title Female age is an important parameter to predict treatment outcome in intracytoplasmic sperm injection.
• donation: Actually, the only time I've ever seen an Ann Summers catalog is the time I went to give a sperm donation.

Noun used with modifier

• pygmy: March 9, 2003 A pygmy sperm whale died Saturday night after beaching itself near the Holiday Inn on Ocean Drive.
• donor: We maintain a donor sperm bank of the highest quality.

Possessives

• husband: Mrs A consented to her eggs being used and mixed with her husband's sperm but not with named or anonymous donated sperm.
• father: The assumption is that smoking causes cancer in children by damaging their father's sperm.