Vocabulary : Spermism to Spermophore
Spermism : The theory, formerly held by many, that the sperm or spermatozoon contains the germ of the future embryo; animalculism.Spermist : A believer in the doctrine, formerly current, of encasement in the male (see Encasement), in which the seminal thread, or spermatozoid, was considered as the real animal germ, the head being the true animal head and the tail the body.
Spermo- : Combining forms from Gr. spe`rma, -atos, seed, sperm, semen (of plants or animals); as, spermatoblast, spermoblast.
Spermoblast : One of the cells formed by the division of the spermospore, each of which is destined to become a spermatozoid; a spermatocyte; a spermatoblast.
Spermococcus : The nucleus of the sperm cell.
