Semen and transmission of disease
Semen is in itself harmless on the skin or if swallowed. However, semen can be the vehicle for many sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
Semen is an organic fluid (also known as seminal fluid) that usually contains spermatozoa. It is secreted by the gonads (sexual glands) and other sexual organs of male or hermaphroditic animals for fertilization of female ova.
semen A mixture of sperm and various glandular secretions.
semiconservative replication Process of DNA replication in which the DNA helix is unwound and each strand serves as a template for the synthesis of a new complementary strand, ...
semen
(see-men) [L. seed]
The fluid that is ejaculated by the male during orgasm; contains sperm and secretions from several glands of the male reproductive tract.
semicircular canals ...
Semen plasma agglutination (test)
a procedure to detect antibodies to a specific antigen in the plasma fraction of semen ...
semen removed from the vagina of the rape victim (EVIDENCE #2);
a semen stain left on the victim's clothing (EVIDENCE #1);
the DNA of the victim herself (VICTIM) to be sure that the DNA didn't come from her cells; ...
semen The thick, whitish secretion of the reproductive organs in the male; composed of sperm and secretions from the prostate, seminal vesicles, and various other glands and ducts.
[L. semen - seed; L. ferre - to bear]. The tightly coiled tubules found within the testes of vertebrates containing germ cells that are differentiated into spermatozoa.
DNA evidence can last for years, for example, in semen stains on clothing. Lawyers have used this evidence at retrials to show that their client could not be the guilty party because his or her DNA type does not match the evidence.
To prove guilt.
The vesiculæ seminales (Fig. 1152) are two lobulated membranous pouches, placed between the fundus of the bladder and the rectum, serving as reservoirs for the semen, and secreting a fluid to be added to the secretion of the testes.
Sources of DNA found at a crime scene might include blood, semen, tissue from a deceased victim, cells in a hair follicle, and even saliva.
My promised supply of horsemen.
The food, and the like, which meets the daily necessities of an army or other large body of men; store; used chiefly in the plural; as, the army was discontented for lack of supplies.
spermatos - seed, semen; Gr. kytos - a hollow vessel; modern usage cyt- denotes a cell]. An immature diploid germ cell found in the testis that arose from a spermatogonium and that will undergo two meiotic divisions to become four spermatids.
There have been since the antique times this idea that was initially touted by Aristotle that it's the male that is active and that heat will actually trigger male sex determination: depending on how warm or hot the male semen was the baby would be ...
Ejaculation expulsion of semen
(e- = out‚ without‚ from; jacul = throw) ...
urethra A narrow tube that transports urine from the bladder to the outside of the body. In males, it also conducts sperm and semen to the outside. PICTURE ...
seminal vesicles
Apart of the male reproductive tract that stores sperm in invertebrates and produces semen in vertebrates.
seminiferous tubules
Highly coiled tubes in the testes in which sperm are produced.
 See also: Trans, Human, Cells, Organ, Blood
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