LESSON 17 Flashcards
The inability to conceive a child or sustain a pregnancy to birth
Infertility
Term used more than infertility
Subfertility
It refers to ‘most couples have the potential to conceive’ but are less able to do ‘so without additional help’
Subfertilty
When a pregnancy has not occured after at least 1 year of engaging in unprotected coitus
Subfertiltity
No previous conception
Primary subfertilitty
There has been a previous viable pregnancy but the couple has been unable to conceive at present
Secondary Subfertility
Inability to conceive because of a ‘known condition’, such as the absence of uterus
Sterility
of sperm in a single ejaculation or in a milliliter of semen
33 to 46 ml or 50m per ejaculation
The undescended testicles
Cryptorchidism
Lowers the sperm production if surgical repair was not completed until after puberty or if ‘spermatic cord becomes twisted’ after the surgery
Cryptorchidism
Testicular inflammation and scarring because of mumps virus
Mumps orchitis
Varicosity of the spermatic vein
Varicocele
It may interfere with penetration and deposition
Extreme obesity
It is called impotence
Erectile Dysfunction
Inability to achieve an erection
Erectile Dysfunction
Never been able to achieve erection and ejaculation
Primary Erectile Dysfunction
The man has been able to achieve ejaculation in the past but is not unable to
Secondary Erectile Dysfunction
Hormonal imbalance due to hypothyroidism, ovarian tumors, exposure to xray or radiation, general ill health
Turner’s Syndrome
Infection of the pelvic organs
Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
Occurs when bits of the tissue that lines the uterus (endometrium) grow on other pelvic organs, such as ovaries and fallopian tube
Endometriosis
It can cause the pH to become acidotic, limiting or destroying motility of the sperm
Infection of the vagina
After 2-3 days of sexual abstinence, the man ejaculates by masturbation into a clean, dry specimen jar
Semen Analysis
The number of the sperm are counted and then examined under a microscope within 1 hour
Semen Analysis
How many days is needed for the sperm to reach fertility
30-90 days
