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Spermatozoon

noun
(pl. spermatozoa)
1.
The male reproductive cell; the male gamete.  Synonyms: sperm, sperm cell, spermatozoan.






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... nucleus with chromosomes, and a centrosome, the number of chromosomes, as shown later, being however only half that normal for the ordinary cells of the animals. The study of the development of the spermatozoon shows that it has come from cells which contained the normal number of four, but that this number has been reduced to one half by a process which is equivalent to that which we have just noticed in the egg. Thus it comes about that each of the sexual elements, the egg and ...
— The Story of the Living Machine • H. W. Conn



Words linked to "Spermatozoon" :   semen, acrosome, seminal fluid, flagellum, male reproductive system, gamete, cum, ejaculate, seed, come



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