Definition of Azoospermia

1. Noun. (medicine) The absence of live sperm in the semen ¹

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Definition of Azoospermia

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Azoospermia

1. The absence of spermatozoa in the semen or failure of formation of spermatozoa. (18 Nov 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Azoospermia

azolidine
azoline
azolitmin
azollas
azomethane
azomethine
azomethines
azon
azonal
azoniahelicene
azonic
azonic acid
azonitrile
azonitriles
azons
azooxanthellate
azophloxin
azopolymer
azopolymers
azoproite
azoprotein
azoreductase
azoreductases
azores
azorubine
azosemide
azospirillum

Literary usage of Azoospermia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"FRANK (Ann. des maladies des organes genito-urinaires, 1907, xxv, 1601) says that the best proof that azoospermia and asthenozoospermia should not be ..."

2. Urogenital Therapeutics, Medical and Surgical: A Treatise on the Practical by Filipp Kreissl (1908)
"azoospermia. We exclude from this consideration a group of lesions which are ... azoospermia is also the necessary consequence Bilateral of a bilateral ..."

3. A Practical treatise on the causes, symptoms, and treatment of sexual by William Josephus Robinson (1913)
"... in the'semen (azoospermia.) As the testicles are the principal organs which generate the semen and ..."

4. On the functional diseases of the urinary and reproductive organs by Donald Campbell Black (1875)
"IDIOPATHIC azoospermia.—There are cases in which, independent entirely of structural or other disease, there is an unaccountable absence of spermatozoa in ..."

5. Health and Disease in Relation to Marriage and the Married State by Hermann Senator, Siegfried Kaminer (1905)
"The importance of azoospermia as a cause of conjugal sterility has been shown first ... He found azoospermia in not less than 30% of the married persons who ..."

6. The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children (1916)
"While many cases of azoospermia have been reported for which no cause was assigned, it is doubtful whether idiopathic azoospermia occurs. ..."

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