male reproductive system
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- noun
- Specialized
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sistema reproductor masculino
- Zinc is essential for maintaining healthy function within the male reproductive system, impacting fertility.
Examples
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In a large proportion of men over sixty, what part of the male reproductive system may cause problems? Prostate gland, Vas deferens, Epididymis, Testes.
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546 The male reproductive system in rats is approximately 100 times more susceptible to TCDD toxicity when exposure occurs perinatally rather than in adulthood.
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And as for the male reproductive system, I say we bring back the baculum.
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Zinc is very important in the male reproductive system.
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TCDD exposure is expected to have a great impact on the male reproductive system in rats during early development. Id. at 5-47.
Academic text (1993) -
You obviously are pretty clueless about the male reproductive system if you think the prostate gland only supplies 1% of the semen volume.
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The male reproductive system consists of one sex organ, one sex organ and a system of glands, two glands, two sex organs. The union of the egg and the sperm is the result of coitus, umbilicus, abortion, menstruation.
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The male reproductive system includes vital organs such as the testes and penis, which play a crucial role in reproduction.
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Researchers are studying how environmental factors influence the health of the male reproductive system and its ability to produce offspring.
Synonyms
Body parts that make and support eggs, sperm, and the development of babies
Surface Forms
Morphology
male + reproductive + system
The phrase is a straightforward composition of 'male' (relating to organisms that produce sperm), 'reproductive' (relating to generating offspring), and 'system' (an ensemble of cooperating organs); a B1 learner who knows these words can readily combine them to infer it refers to the organs in males involved in reproduction. This compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows regular English noun-modifier + modifier + noun structure, so the meaning is directly derivable from the constituents.
Etymology
Male reproductive system is a simple scientific name made of male, reproductive, and system. It names the group of organs that produce and carry sperm, so it refers to the body parts that let a man 'make babies'.