Sperm Cell (Noun)
Meaning
The male reproductive cell; the male gamete; "a sperm is mostly a nucleus surrounded by little other cellular material".
Classification
Nouns denoting body parts.
Examples
- Fertilization typically involves a single sperm cell merging with the egg to create a zygote.
- Each time the man ejaculates he typically produces about half a billion sperm cells but very few come near to meeting an egg cell in vivo.
- Several artificial mediums mimicking the properties of the fluid surrounding the gamete cell inside a human female are used to determine how well or how strong the human sperm cell flows during lab work or In Vitro.
- During ejaculation many sperm cells are left in the male urethra.
- The process of making sperm cells in humans is called spermatogenesis.