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Male factor accounts to about 40% of infertility.
DEFINITION
Failure to conceive within one or more years of regular unprotected coitus during fertile period is infertility.
- Primary: Never conceived.
- Secondary: Achieved pregnancy once but thereafter cannot conceive within one or more years of regular unprotected intercourse during fertile period.
MALE ANATOMY AND FUNCTIONS
- Testis
- Seminiferous tubules—Spermatogenesis
- Cells of Leydig—Testosterone production
- Seminal vesicles—Produces viscous, alkaline fluid rich in fructose
- Prostate—Produces prostaglandin
- Ductal system
- Epididymis—Maturation of sperm and transport
- Vas deferens—Sperm storage and acidification
(decrease motility)
- Ejaculatory duct—Convergence of vas and
seminal vesicles (to urethra)
- Urethra—Terminal portion of the seminal fluid
passage (ejaculation).
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