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sperma

(spĕr′mă) [Gr.]

1. Semen.

2. Spermatozoa.

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Alla Pieta non si fa sesso, non si produce sperma a profusione e la disperazione di Cecilia non si presta a facile ilarita.

Quel che resta di pulp in Stabat Mater di Tiziano Scarpa

Throughout this section, the author refers to menses as the 'fluid' (hygrotes or hygron), never as gone or sperma. Moreover, in discussing the menses per se, he gives no indication that they are necessary for conception.

Clinical gynecology and Aristotle's biology: the composition of HA X

Regarding the activity and the potency of further development of the seed, he mostly prefers to speak about psuche, while in relation to nutrition, physical power or gender difference, he prefers expressions soma, to apokrithen or sperma.

Soul, seed and palingenesis in the Hippocratic de Victu

Isolation of sperma storage tubules from the uterovaginal junction mucosa of the turkey.

Histology and morphometry of the infundibulum-magnum and uterus-vaginal junctions of spotted quails/Histologia e morfometria das glandulas das juncoes infundibulo-magno e utero-vagina de codorna domestica

Amongst the most significant species are Pinus sylvestris, Picea abies, Rhododendron ferrugineum, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, Empetrum hermaphroditum, Antennaria carpatica, Aquilegia alpina, Carex ferruginea, Carex foetida, Cerastium alpinum, Cryptogramma crispa, Dryopteris oreades, Oreopteris limbo sperma, Woodsia alpina, Eriophorum polystachyon, Eryophorum scheuchzeri, Gentiana purpurea, Homogyne alpina, Juncus jacquinii, Luzula alpinopilosa, Ranunculus kupferi, Sassurea discolor, Senecio incanus, Trichophorum alpinum, Trifolim alpinum, (etc.).

Estudio de los hayedos de los Apeninos (Italia): una intrincada red biogeografica y sintaxonomica

Zur ATP- und AMP-Bestimmung mit dem Biolumineszenzverfahren im Sperma einiger Haustiere und des Menschen.

Comparison of motility, acrosome, viability and ATP of boar sperm with or without cold shock resistance in liquid semen at 17[degrees]C and 4[degrees]C, and frozen-thawed semen

A quella scena dove Adriana Asti fa toeletta spalmandosi sulla pelle sperma appena emesso in un vasetto da uno schiavo.

Intervista a Tiziano Scarpa di Stefania Lucamante

"gymnosperms" (from the Greek gymnos [naked] and sperma

Trees and their economic importance

(3) A central thesis of Aristotle's embryological theory is that, in animal generation, the father contributes form (conveyed by sperma) and the mother contributes matter (the katamenia).

C.D.C. Reeve, Substantial Knowledge: Aristotle's Metaphysics

Name Origin: From the Greek words leptos (slender) and sperma (seed), referring to its narrow seeds.

Appendix

Corporalita molesta che si ripercuote nell'affiorare degli umori e delle anatomie del concepimento: mestruo, sperma, seni, fianchi dilatati e vagine scrutate con lo specchietto, segni che rimandano a una sterilita da superare.