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Descriptor English: Sperm Motility
Descriptor Spanish: Motilidad Espermática
Descriptor motilidad de los espermatozoides
Entry term(s) motilidad espermatozoidal
motilidad espermática
Scope note: Movimiento característico de los ESPERMATOZOIDES en una muestra fresca. Se mide por el porcentaje de espermatozoides móviles y el porcentaje de espermatozoides con movimiento flagelar productivo como progresión rápida, lineal y hacia adelante.
Descriptor Portuguese: Motilidade dos Espermatozoides
Descriptor French: Mobilité des spermatozoïdes
Entry term(s): Motilities, Sperm
Motility, Sperm
Sperm Motilities
Tree number(s): E01.370.225.992.812
E05.200.992.812
G04.198.750
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D013081
Scope note: Movement characteristics of SPERMATOZOA in a fresh specimen. It is measured as the percentage of sperms that are moving, and as the percentage of sperms with productive flagellar motion such as rapid, linear, and forward progression.
Allowable Qualifiers: DE drug effects
GE genetics
IM immunology
PH physiology
RE radiation effects
Previous Indexing: Spermatozoa (1966-1974)
Public MeSH Note: 1976; see SPERMATOZOA 1975
History Note: 1976(1975); use SPERMATOZOA 1975
Related: Sperm Immobilizing Agents MeSH
Sperm Transport MeSH
DeCS ID: 13464
Unique ID: D013081
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Date Established: 1976/01/01
Date of Entry: 1974/11/11
Revision Date: 2016/06/17
Sperm Motility - Preferred
Concept UI M0020268
Scope note Movement characteristics of SPERMATOZOA in a fresh specimen. It is measured as the percentage of sperms that are moving, and as the percentage of sperms with productive flagellar motion such as rapid, linear, and forward progression.
Preferred term Sperm Motility
Entry term(s) Motilities, Sperm
Motility, Sperm
Sperm Motilities



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