What's the difference between coitus and copulation?

Coitus


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The energey expenditure during coitus for long-married couples is equivalent to that of climbing stairs, and consequently the risk of heart attack is low.
  • (2) Decidual response also is produced in the immature rat after coitus-induced ovulation.
  • (3) Significantly, more of the patients aged below 30 years reported erection sufficient for coitus (p less than 0.05).
  • (4) Sterile coitus on the other hand, stimulates the uterine cervix in the rat and induces a physiological state of pseudopregnancy which interrupts the normal pattern of the oestrous cycle and establishes a persistent dioestrous state.
  • (5) Because of early age at initiation of intercourse and associated nonuse of contraception, half of first premarital pregnancies to teens occur in the first six months after they begin coitus; one-fifth occur in the first month.
  • (6) Among the strongest determinants of first coitus at those ages are infrequent church attendance, parental education of fewer than 12 years and black race.
  • (7) When correlated for age at first coitus, there was a significant excess of dysplasias in oral contraceptive users.
  • (8) In men, HIV seropositivity was associated with anal coitus (OR = 4.0), homosexual relations (OR = 3.96), sexual relations with infected persons (OR = 3.75), and sexual relations abroad (OR = 1.88); in women there was an association with intravenous drug use (chi 2 = 10.72) and with sexual relations abroad (OR = 12.67).
  • (9) The importance of adequately preparing the women emotionally and physically for coitus, a matter which certain males tend to ignore, is emphasized.
  • (10) Observations were made on excised female tracts 1-2 h post-coitus (pc) and 1-2 h before and after the approximate time of ovulation.
  • (11) Primary infertility, more prevalent among those born in 1946-60, was found to be related to a higher level of education, an urban life style and low age at first coitus.
  • (12) In couples that reported a satisfying sexual activity, the first coitus occurred 6 months after surgery (range: 4 to 15 months).
  • (13) It is concluded that the small number of sperm remaining in the vagina following coitus quickly become inactivated.
  • (14) The paper examines two aspects of coitus interruptus as a sexual practice: (1) how, in the age of fertility decline in Western Europe, its meaning was reinterpreted from an earlier theological view that condemned it as licentious to a nineteenth century view that emphasized restraint, and (2) how it was actually experienced by a socially stratified birth-controlling population in rural Sicily, ca 1900-1970.
  • (15) Coitus induced ovulation produced a characteristic oviductal motility pattern consisting of (i) initial relaxation of both isthmus and ampulla (4-12 h) followed by (ii) increased isthmic motility in the face of a continually relaxed ampulla (36-48 h), and finally phase (iii) leading to restitution of both ampullary and isthmic motility to the base-line at 72-96 h. Estimation of ova positions indicated the presence of fertilized eggs in the ampulla and ampullo-isthmic junction at 48 h and the ova could come to the end of the isthmic segment only at 72 h or after.
  • (16) The blastocysts obtained under a low oxygen-SOD culture condition were transplanted by direct insertion into the uterus of pseudopregnant females 3 days after infertile coitus.
  • (17) Comparison with previous investigations revealed that the average age at the first coitus showed a tendency to decrease in all three regions during the past 20-30 years.
  • (18) Four pony mares were readily infected with the organism of contagious equine metritis by intracervical inoculation and one by coitus with an infected stallion.
  • (19) These findings also point to the possible interference of certain pathologies in correlating AP activity and time since coitus.
  • (20) In both of the investigations, the majority stated that the first coitus was with a person of the same age group.

Copulation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of coupling or joining; union; conjunction.
  • (n.) The coming together of male and female in the act of generation; sexual union; coition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Using allozymes as the genetic probe, data are presented which show that wild Drosophila buzzatii females and males engaged in copulation mate at random.
  • (2) The inhibition is desappears if placed under copulation conditions during a full cycle.
  • (3) Circular cuts which surgically isolated the medial basal hypothalamus (MBH) from the remainder of the brain did not prevent copulation 4 to 24 h later, but did block reflex ovulation.
  • (4) Eight rats of the PCPA group and only two of the vehicle, started to copulate.
  • (5) Incubation of normal pig lymphocytes in serum samples collected from 10 sows immediately before, and at daily intervals after mating with a vasectomized boar significantly elevated the rosette inhibition titre (RIT) of a standard antilymphocyte serum in 6 animals on the first but not on the 2nd and 3rd day after copulation.
  • (6) Duration of copulation in mixed combinations of D. athabasca is determined by the male.
  • (7) In Rhodotorula, peroxisomes are characterized by the same "bean" configuration and paired arrangement imitating "copulation" as mitocondria.
  • (8) On average, copulation lasted 27.2 s and was completed in flight.
  • (9) The surface membrane enzyme activity disappears from the zygote shortly after copulation and at the same time lysosome-like bodies start to appear in the cytoplasm.
  • (10) There was no seasonal fluctuation in copulative activity.
  • (11) Since courtship song increases a females' receptivity to copulation, the frequency of mating within a short observation period was used as a measure of the ability of mutant females to distinguish between singing males and males that were unable to sing.
  • (12) Copulations with other adults males also occurred during all cycle phases, but were most frequent peri-ovulatory.
  • (13) Copulation occurred more often on the occasion of the first attempt by the male.
  • (14) In the second experiment, intact females copulated twice with a male: once when they were able to hear and once when they were temporarily deafened with a medical ear mold.
  • (15) The gene products are secreted into the male duct and transferred to the female copulant during copulation.
  • (16) Pregnant C3H mice were exposed to teratogenic doses of cyclophosphamide (CPA), on the 11th day after copulation.
  • (17) Thiazide-type diuretics also produce erectile dysfunction in rats and interfere with normal copulation.
  • (18) Morphine administered rats showed a loss of weight, hypertrophy of the adrenals, decreased weight of accessory sex organs, low sperm count, and decreased copulation rate.
  • (19) La Crosse virus was detected in the bursa of females after induced copulation, and disseminated infection was shown to occur occasionally.
  • (20) Mangabeys spend 47% of activity observations feeding, 27% moving, and the remainder of the activity observations is accounted for by grooming, playing, vocalizing, copulating, etc.

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