LESSON 17

Question 1

The inability to conceive a child or sustain a pregnancy to birth

Answer 1

Infertility

Question 2

Term used more than infertility

Answer 2

Subfertility

Question 3

It refers to ‘most couples have the potential to conceive’ but are less able to do ‘so without additional help’

Answer 3

Subfertilty

Question 4

When a pregnancy has not occured after at least 1 year of engaging in unprotected coitus

Answer 4

Subfertiltity

Question 5

No previous conception

Answer 5

Primary subfertilitty

Question 6

There has been a previous viable pregnancy but the couple has been unable to conceive at present

Answer 6

Secondary Subfertility

Question 7

Inability to conceive because of a ‘known condition’, such as the absence of uterus

Answer 7

Sterility

Question 8

of sperm in a single ejaculation or in a milliliter of semen

Answer 8

33 to 46 ml or 50m per ejaculation

Question 9

The undescended testicles

Answer 9

Cryptorchidism

Question 10

Lowers the sperm production if surgical repair was not completed until after puberty or if ‘spermatic cord becomes twisted’ after the surgery

Answer 10

Cryptorchidism

Question 11

Testicular inflammation and scarring because of mumps virus

Answer 11

Mumps orchitis

Question 11

Varicosity of the spermatic vein

Answer 11

Varicocele

Question 12

It may interfere with penetration and deposition

Answer 12

Extreme obesity

Question 13

It is called impotence

Answer 13

Erectile Dysfunction

Question 14

Inability to achieve an erection

Answer 14

Erectile Dysfunction

Question 15

Never been able to achieve erection and ejaculation

Answer 15

Primary Erectile Dysfunction

Question 16

The man has been able to achieve ejaculation in the past but is not unable to

Answer 16

Secondary Erectile Dysfunction

Question 17

Hormonal imbalance due to hypothyroidism, ovarian tumors, exposure to xray or radiation, general ill health

Answer 17

Turner’s Syndrome

Question 18

Infection of the pelvic organs

Answer 18

Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

Question 19

Occurs when bits of the tissue that lines the uterus (endometrium) grow on other pelvic organs, such as ovaries and fallopian tube

Answer 19

Endometriosis

Question 20

It can cause the pH to become acidotic, limiting or destroying motility of the sperm

Answer 20

Infection of the vagina

Question 21

After 2-3 days of sexual abstinence, the man ejaculates by masturbation into a clean, dry specimen jar

Answer 21

Semen Analysis

Question 22

The number of the sperm are counted and then examined under a microscope within 1 hour

Answer 22

Semen Analysis

Question 23

How many days is needed for the sperm to reach fertility

Answer 23

30-90 days