Terminology Service for NFDI4Health

semen

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Organism substance that is composed of sperm cells suspended in seminal fluid. [ http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 ]

Term info

Label

semen

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/Human_semen_in_petri_dish2.jpg

has related synonym

sperm, ejaculate

id

UBERON:0001968

taxon notes

Note that in this ontology, semen is defined as the sum of sperm and seminal fluid, where seminal fluid is defined in taxonomically generic way (see comments for UBERON:0006530).