sperm-cell

If the sperm-cell travels to the ovarium it generally takes from three to five days to make the journey.

Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis

Sir Clifford Allbutt's view, referred to in the following letter, probably had reference to the fact that the sperm-cell goes, or is carried, to the germ-cell, never vice versa.

Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant

Entry for these is provided by the union of the germ-cell with the male sperm-cell. 7

Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs

If the sperm-cell travels to the ovarium it generally takes from three to five days to make the journey.

Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage B.G. Jefferis

It is generally known that human beings result from the union of an egg-cell and a sperm-cell, but it is not so universally understood that these germ-cells are part of a continuous stream of germ-plasm which has been in existence ever since the appearance of life on the globe, and which is destined to continue in existence as long as life remains on the globe.

Applied Eugenics Paul Popenoe 1933

Sir Clifford Allbutt's view, referred to in the following letter, probably had reference to the fact that the sperm-cell goes, or is carried, to the germ-cell, never vice versa.

Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916

In the higher animals the egg or ovum is produced by the female, and is fertilized by the sperm-cell produced by the male.

Men Women and God Arthur Herbert Gray 1912

From the usually annual period of flowering in plants, with its play of sperm-cell and germ-cell and consequent seed-production, through the varying sexual energies of animals, up to the monthly effervescence of the generative organism in woman, seeking not without the shedding of blood for the gratification of its reproductive function, from first to last we find unfailing evidence of the periodicity of sex.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Havelock Ellis 1899

There is no reason to suppose that the germ-cell and the sperm-cell are essentially different from each other.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Havelock Ellis 1899

In the very nature of the sperm-cell and the germ-cell we find this difference: the one attracts, gathers, draws in; the other repels, scatters, pushes out.

The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1897