Aspermia
Aspermia is the medical term for the absence of the ejaculate , with or without sperm of the (seed) despite the occurrence of a orgasm neurophysiologically from the sexual center in the diencephalon triggered and directly a ejaculation causing involuntary contractions of the sexual organs , and is not to be confused with an azoospermia , absence of semen maturation cells and sperm cells in an ejaculate, or anejaculation , the absence of involuntary contractions of the genital organs and thus the absence of ejaculation when an orgasm is present.
Concept variations
According to other definitions that can also be found in the literature , aspermia means either the absence of cellular elements in the semen or the absence of seminal filaments in the ejaculate. A difference to azoospermia is in some cases hardly recognizable in these definition variants.
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Prepubescent
Since the overwhelming majority of male children before puberty and thus before the onset of sexual maturity with sexual stimulation up to the climax despite involuntary contractions of the genital organs, a dry orgasm occurs without ejaculate, one can also speak of temporary aspermia in these cases.
Post-puberty
In this phase of life it is usually either a so-called transport aspermia, z. B. in the context of an innervation disorder in the area of the draining spermatic tract and / or the accessory sex glands or a complete retrograde ejaculation .
Sequelae
Male infertility is the consequence of aspermia that persists after puberty or that recurs at some point after reaching sexual maturity .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urology script ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. From: agma.med.uni-giessen.de accessed on Sep 1. 2007.
- ↑ Andrology ( Memento of the original from November 10, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. From: agma.med.uni-giessen.de accessed on Sep 1. 2007
- ^ Roche Lexicon Medicine, 5th edition, Urban & Fischer, 2003
- ↑ Aspermia ( Memento from November 28, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) On: urologenportal.de ; Dictionary; Retrieved September 3, 2013.
