"Oligospermia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A condition of suboptimal concentration of SPERMATOZOA in the ejaculated SEMEN to ensure successful FERTILIZATION of an OVUM. In humans, oligospermia is defined as a sperm count below 20 million per milliliter semen.
| Descriptor ID |
D009845
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C12.294.365.700.508
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| Concept/Terms |
Oligospermia- Oligospermia
- Hypospermatogenesis
- Hypospermatogeneses
- Low Sperm Count
- Low Sperm Counts
- Sperm Count, Low
- Sperm Counts, Low
- Oligoasthenoteratozoospermia
- Oligoasthenoteratozoospermias
- Oligozoospermia
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| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Oligospermia" by people in Profiles.
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Intracytoplasmic sperm injection. N Z Med J. 1996 Sep 13; 109(1029):345.