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

Exercise 23

State the two parameters considered when evaluating sperm motility.

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Sperm motility:

• Motility of sperm is the movement of sperm which is led by flagella present in sperm.

• The neckpiece, midpiece, and tail part of a sperm induce sperm motility to reach the female egg properly.

o “Neckpiece” of a sperm is used to join the head to the tail and midpiece; it makes head to move properly to the desired part.

o The “midpiece” is a thickest part of tail in a sperm which contains mitochondrial cover to produce energy to tail for flagellar movement.

o “Tail” part of a sperm is used to make the sperm to swim to reach ovum.