What's the difference between few and oligospermous?
Few
Definition:
(superl.) Not many; small, limited, or confined in number; -- indicating a small portion of units or individuals constituing a whole; often, by ellipsis of a noun, a few people.
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Oligospermous
Definition:
(a.) Having few seeds.
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(1) Oligospermic status interspersed with azoospermia was maintained by periodic boosting.
(2) The donors included identical twins, carriers of chromosomal translocations, and oligospermics.
(3) Except for 3 oligospermic subjects, all had circulating spermagglutinins.
(4) In this group, 42 per cent defined a successful operation as the postoperative appearance of a normal semen analysis in the azoospermic or oligospermic man regardless of whether his wife fails to conceive.
(5) Zinc levels in seminal plasma of normal subjects are compared with those of oligospermic, asthenospermic and azoospermic.
(6) Previous smaller studies have given rise to conflicting or inconclusive results, but the reduced conception rates in the partners of oligospermic men in this large study suggests that unexplained female factors, discussed in the paper, contribute to their infertility in up to a third of patients.
(7) The results support use of fine needle aspiration of the testis as a minimally invasive diagnostic parameter for the assessment of oligospermic subjects.
(8) One hundred sixty-six oligospermic patients were analyzed, and the findings were compared with those obtained from 40 normozoospermic infertile subjects used as controls.
(9) When the husband was moderately (5.1 to 11.9 million motile sperm per milliliter) or severely (less than or equal to 5 million motile sperm per milliliter) oligospermic, fertilization rates were 56 and 30 per cent, respectively.
(10) Compared to normal semen, aromatase stimulating activity was lower in azoospermic individuals, while melatonin was higher in oligospermic and azoospermic samples.
(11) A group of proteins (molecular weights = 20,000 to 23,000) in seminal plasma analyzed immediately after liquefaction was detected in oligospermic men (n = 4) but not in normospermic men (n = 4) or azoospermic men (n = 4).
(12) A study was carried out, by means of polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, of the nucleoproteins of spermatozoa from infertile, oligospermic patients affected by partial idiopathic spermatidic arrest.
(13) GnRH was administered to 34 men (8 normospermic, 8 moderately oligospermic, 10 severely oligospermic and 8 azoospermic) and the responsiveness of serum LH and FSH determined.
(14) Of all the tests made on the patients, only mean testicular biopsy ratings differed significantly between the fertile and infertile groups, thus leading to the conclusion that such ratings are more useful in the assessment of oligospermic patients than are semen analysis or determination of hormone levels.
(15) We have evaluated IGF-BP expression in normal, oligospermic and azospermic human seminal plasma (SP), and have identified IGF-BP-2 in all samples.
(16) A similar proportion of pregnancies was seen in couples with or without evidence of fertilization of the supernumerary oocytes in both the oligospermic and normospermic couples.
(17) The response of LH and FSH levels to intramuscularly administered synthetic LH-RH was studied in two healthy volunteers and three oligospermic patients.
(18) Serum FSH, LH and testosterone and urinary excretion of androsterone, aetiocholanolone, dehydroepiandrosterone and total oestrogens were measured in normal and oligospermic men before and after clomiphene stimulation.
(19) While differences in AC between oligospermic and azoospermic subjects were insignificant, they were both significantly lower than normal samples (p.0005).
(20) Tertiary trisomic males, carrying the small translocation chromosome from the T(1;13)7OH reciprocal mouse translocation as the extra chromosome, are oligospermic.