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- Morphology is the shape and form of each individual sperm
- How much sperm is contained in each ejaculate is called the concentration
- The color of the sperm rich fluid should be white and not contain traces of blood or urine
- How well the sperm moves forward in a straight line is called motility
- The sperm should contain very few cells and minimal bacteria
- Trauma to the scrotum
- Illness
- Hormonal irregularities
- Drugs such as steroids
- Testicular neoplasia
- High scrotal temperature
- Idiopathic
- Exposure to toxins
- Brucella canis (bacterium can spread through semen)
- Exposure to toxins
- Temperature changes
- Prolonged period between sexual activity or ejaculation
- Fever
- Infection
- Presence of blood and urine
- Kartagener’s syndrome (inherited disorder that affects sperm motility)
- Thyroid dysfunction
- Testicular degeneration
- Azoospermia is when the ejaculatory fluid contains no sperm
- Oligozoospermia means the number of spermatozoa is low
- Aspermia is the lack of ejaculation
- Teratozoospermia results when there is a low percentage of normal sized and shaped sperm
- Asthenozoospermia is a low percentage of mobile spermatozoa
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