Sperm can have abnormalities or defects in their morphology. Here are some of them:
- Head defects
- very small, very large, two heads, balloon-shaped, with large vacuoles...
- Midpiece defects
- very thin, very thick, very short, very long, displaced to one side, without a neck...
- Tail defects
- very short, very long, two tails, coiled, broken...
Additionally, a single sperm can have abnormal forms in more than one of its parts. In any case, a sperm is already considered abnormal if there is just one morphological alteration.
Read the full article on: What Types of Sperm Morphological Defects Exist? ( 72).
Read the full article on: What are vacuoles in spermatozoa and do they have implications? ( 35).
Marta Barranquero Gómez
B.Sc., M.Sc.
Graduated in Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences by the University of Valencia (UV) and specialized in Assisted Reproduction by the University of Alcalá de Henares (UAH) in collaboration with Ginefiv and in Clinical Genetics by the University of Alcalá de Henares (UAH).
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