Word: spermatozoa
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...acceptable. "The only way which presently seems open is that of postcoital artificial insemination between spouses . . . What medical science does [in such cases] is to further pump or inject the semen, coitally deposited, right into the external os, into the cervical canal, hoping that the teeming millions of injected spermatozoa may swim their way up ... to meet an ovum.. This method, utilized to aid nature, might obtain the moralist's permission...
...improved application of old ones. Tests using rabbits are slow, may take two days; frogs or toads imported from South America or South Africa are expensive ($4 to $10 apiece). Urine from a pregnant woman injected into a common male leopard frog (Rana pipiens) causes emission of spermatozoa. The test has also proved valuable for finding out whether, in doubtful cases, a miscarriage is inevitable. The test can be done in two hours, in a doctor's office, and is 98% accurate...
...Pollock's painting Number Eleven, pictured in the Art section of TIME [Feb. 7], interpreted by Sam Hunter of the New York Times as "cathartic disintegration," is nothing of the sort. Any biologist will tell him that Mr. Pollock made a subconscious endeavor to paint a jumble of spermatozoa, probably of bovine origin. He must have seen these animalcules under the microscope or in a picture at one time. That past experience in the subconscious mind of the artist has forced him to splurge them on canvas at a moment of "high tension." If there has been any disintegration...
...class about to be shown a movie. The film-within-a-film is an animated cartoon done by two ex-Disney artists-with no Disney gags. It explains the processes of sex and pregnancy with simplified diagrams and a minimum of anatomical detail (at first the tails of spermatozoa were shown wiggling in their movements to reach and fertilize the ovum, but technical advisers feared that schoolkids might associate the wiggling with human swimming, break into nervous laughter...
...enables it to withstand Siberian temperatures of 40 below zero. By crossing Merino ewes with wild mountain rams, they have bred a hybrid mountain sheep that bears fine fleece wool. Through their pioneering Institute of Artificial Insemination, Russian biologists have produced 50,000,000 farm animals from vacuum-bottle spermatozoa...