motility

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I'm guessing its a sperm count / motility test.

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ability to move spontaneously and independently

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The clearest senses and uses of motility gathered in one view.

noun

ability to move spontaneously and independently

noun

a change of position that does not entail a change of location; "the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise"; "movement is a sign of life"; "an impatient move of his hand"; "gastrointestinal motility"

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Core meanings and parts of speech for motility.

noun

ability to move spontaneously and independently

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Example sentences

I'm guessing its a sperm count / motility test.

You do your thing in a cup and they run it through some tests for count, motility, shape, etc.

They are measuring sperm motility, which is a way to gauge the sperm's ability to fertilize an egg.

Yes, but even if a few spinal nerves don't get connected, you'll have severe motility problems.

Typically, you get a great seat on the boat and the laborious job of motility is left to someone else.

This is accompanied by a very low sperm count, motility, and deformed flagella.

I had IBS symptoms well before my severe issues with gastroparesis and digestive motility in 2006 and 2012.

I went to a fertility clinic and was told nothing really could be done lifestylewise to improve motility.

You may be referring to technical issues, such as distinguishing live from dead sperm, or measuring motility---but WHO numbers don't reflect that.

The sperm competition would be based solely on sperm motility which is a very poor indicator of evolutionary advantage.

But really, we'd be putting a real person through an incredibly traumatic procedure with a high likelihood of fatality for a chance at motility.

Twice after dealing with stomach flu/food poisoning I developed gastroparesis or severe gastric motility issues.

But i know that in two other fields of cell biology - cell motility and vesicle trafficking - something that became clear in the last decade is that the way you fix samples for electron microscopy has a huge impact on what you see.

Our analysis is a comprehensive assessment that evaluates count, conc, volume, motility + morphology, which gives patients and their doctors the information they need to make decisions around treatment options2.