different between ejaculate vs asthenozoospermia

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?iacul?tus, perfect passive participle of ?iaculor (“hurl, shoot out”), from ? (“out”) + iaculor (“throw, dart”), from iaculum (“a missile, a dart”), from iaci? (“to throw, to hurl”).

Pronunciation

Verb

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??d?æk.j?.le?t/
• (General American) enPR: ?j??ky?l?t, IPA^(key): /??d?æk.j?.le?t/

Noun

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??d?æk.j?.l?t/
• (General American) enPR: ?j??ky?l?t, IPA^(key): /??d?æk.j?.l?t/

Hyphenation

• Hyphenation: eja?cu?late

Verb

ejaculate (third-person singular simple present ejaculates, present participle ejaculating, simple past and past participle ejaculated)

1. (transitive) To eject abruptly; to throw out suddenly and swiftly.

   Synonyms: eject, throw out

   • 1712, Richard Blackmore, Creation: A Philosophical Poem. Demonstrating the Existence and Providence of a God. In Seven Books, book I, London: Printed for S. Buckley, at the Dolphin in Little-Britain; and J[acob] Tonson, at Shakespear's Head over-against Catherine-Street in the Strand, OCLC 731619916; 5th edition, Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, for G. Risk, G. Ewing, and W. Smith, in Dame's-street, 1727, OCLC 728300884, page 7:

     The mighty Magnet from the Center darts / This ?trong, tho' ?ubtile Force, thro' all the Parts: / Its active Rays ejaculated thence, / Irradiate all the wide Circumference.

2. (intransitive) To say abruptly.

   Synonym: blurt out
3. (biology, transitive) To eject or suddenly throw fluid or some other substance from a duct or other body structure.
4. (specifically, transitive and intransitive) Of a human being or other mammal: to forcibly eject from the urethra in response to sexual stimulation, in a male, semen; and, in a female, vaginal fluid.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:ejaculate

Related terms

• ejaculation
• ejaculator
• ejaculatory
• eject
• ejection

Translations

Noun

ejaculate (countable and uncountable, plural ejaculates)

1. Fluid or some other substance ejected or suddenly thrown from a duct or other body structure; specifically, semen or vaginal fluid ejected by a human being or other mammal during an ejaculation.

Translations

See also

• shot spot

Further reading

• ejaculate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ejaculate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

astheno- +? zoospermia

Noun

asthenozoospermia (uncountable)

1. (pathology) Condition in which a large proportion of spermatozoa produced in an ejaculate possess poor motility.

Derived terms

• asthenozoosperm
• asthenozoospermic
• normoasthenozoospermia