On the origins of the semen analysis: A close relationship with the history of the reproductive medicine

• Egile nagusia: Fernando Tadeu Andrade-Rocha (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Gaiak: article
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The spermatozoa were first seen in ejaculates in the 17th century. However, the basic mechanisms of human fertilization have been only fully understood after the discovery of ovum in 1827. As a result, the interest in developing technologies for semen analysis arose from the early 1900s. Indeed, sta...