Urinalysis and Body Fluids 6th Edition by Majorie DiLorenzo, Susan Strasinger

Exercise 19

Calculate a sperm concentration and count when provided with the number of sperm counted, the dilution, the area of the counting chamber used, and the ejaculate volume.

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Sperm concentration is the actual count of sperms available in a semen specimen. The sperm concentration is considered as normal when it contains more than 20 to 250 million sperms per milliliter (mL) of semen. The sperm concentration is considered as border line when it contains the range of 10 to 20 million sperms per milliliter (mL) of semen. The sperm concentration is considered as low when it contains less than 10 million sperms per milliliter (mL) of semen.