dispermy


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di·sper·my

, dispermia (dī'spĕr-mē, dī-sperm'ē-ă),
Entrance of two sperms into one oocyte.
Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

di·sper·my

, dispermia (dī'spĕr-mē, -mē-ă)
Entrance of two sperms into one oocyte.
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012
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Thus, the mechanism causing triploidy was more likely to have been either dispermy or a non-disjunction event in meiosis 1 and very unlikely to have been due to an event in meiosis 2.
Diandric triploidy in a liveborn infant with 3-4 syndactyly and a neural tube defect
Allele patterns for CHMs were consistent with monospermy in 25 cases (81%) and dispermy in 6 cases (19%) (Figure 1).
Monospermy was the most frequently observed mechanism for CHM (81%), whereas dispermy was always observed for PHM, consistent with previous studies.
Diagnostic utility of microsatellite genotyping for molar pregnancy testing
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