Definition of "sperm count" [sperm count]

• The number of spermatozoa in a given amount of ejaculate (typically one millilitre), often used as a gauge of male fertility. (noun)

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• "I slipped along the far banks under the high woods of the Dean, past the mudflats off Lydney, where the elvers that swim up the Severn each year from the Sargasso have mysteriously diminished recently from hundreds of millions to mere millions, like the sperm count of Western man."
• "Refraining from intercourse for several days to increase the sperm count"