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