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A condition of suboptimal concentration of SPERMATOZOA in the ejaculated SEMEN to ensure successful FERTILIZATION of an OVUM. In humans, oligospermia is defined as a sperm count below 20 million per milliliter semen.
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- Hypospermatogenesis
- Low Sperm Count
- Oligoasthenoteratozoospermia
- Oligozoospermia
- Hypospermatogeneses
- Low Sperm Counts
- Oligoasthenoteratozoospermias
- Sperm Count, Low
- Sperm Counts, Low
- Cryptospermia
- Cryptozoospermia
- Cryptospermias
- Cryptozoospermias
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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- Spermatozoa (1966-1974)
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- National Library of Medicine. Oligospermia. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D009845. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D009845
- Oligospermia. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligospermia
- Oligospermia. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1876491